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Marksbury Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$981k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$410k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.4MEducation$1.1MHealth$602kYouth Development$500kCommunity Improvement$280kInternational$200kArts & Culture$150kFood & Nutrition$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$410,000
LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$300,000
UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS$271,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ITN BLUEGRASS: $1k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $271k → 15%UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS: $271k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 10 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$3.1M
$337k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LP
    LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $900k · revenue +38% · 57% of their budget
  • LH
    LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $499k · revenue +26%
  • MF
    MAP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $250k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • NL
    NORTH LIMESTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • CL
    CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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2
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
3
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
4
Endeavor Louisville Inc

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.…

International
5
Glean Kentucky Inc

Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.

Food & Nutrition
6
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
7
Civiclex Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
9
American Dairy Association of Kentucky

Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.

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10
Lexington Public Library

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…

Education
11
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
12
Kentucky Association for Economic Development Inc

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,819,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCMAP FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyMAP FOUNDATION INCLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $900,000 · EducationLEXINGTON PUBLIC L…KENTUCKY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION NETWORK INC: $120,000 · EducationKENTUCKY ENTREPREN…+1 more: $25,000 · EducationLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $498,947 · OtherLEXINGTON HEARING &…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $250,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SI…NORTH LIMESTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $125,000 · OtherNORTH LIMESTONE COM…Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC: $50,000 · Other+8 more: $85,500 · Other+8 moreUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $542,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WA…+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureAWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $200,000 · InternationalNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $100,068 · Health
Philanthropy$3,069,000Education$1,045,000Other$1,059,447Human Services$543,000Arts & Culture$255,000International$200,000Health$100,068

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,819,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $542,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $498,947 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetMAP FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $250,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetKENTUCKY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION NETWORK INC: $120,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetAWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $105,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $100,068 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF KENTUCKY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFOODCHAIN INC: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community …American Water Charit…Keeneland Foundation …Honorable Order of Ke…Nisource Charitable F…Baird Foundation IncEe Murry Family Found…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Dean Dorton Allen For…Hilary Boone Foundati…The King's Daughters …Natl Christian Charit…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY30× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marksbury Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marksbury Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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