· Private foundation
Marksbury Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $410,000 |
| LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS | $271,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $543k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LPLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $900k · revenue +38% · 57% of their budget
- LHLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $499k · revenue +26%
- MFMAP FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $250k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NLNORTH LIMESTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $125k
- CLCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +69%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Map Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER RISING ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LEE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ITNBLUEGRASS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ee Murry Family Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Marksbury Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.