· Private foundation
Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of MIDDLEGROUND CAPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY GATON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $200,000 |
| LEXINGTON CENTER CORP | $50,015 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $12,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BLUEGRASS | $11,095 |
| BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC | $10,000 |
| NORTON'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BETTY'S BRAVE & BEAUTIFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION | $7,515 |
| GENERATIONS GROW NETWORK INC | $5,695 |
| FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY | $5,000 |
| MATHCOUNTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ELIZABETH'S VILLAGE (SCOTT COUNTY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC) | $1,788 |
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $1,560 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,205 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $833 |
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 (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue 0%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $28k · revenue +3%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- JHJACK HARLOW FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k
- TBTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- MCMAREWORTHY CHARITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $45k · 29% of their budget
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.
The organization is to be a refuge for noncompetitive, sometimes injured racehorses providing a peaceful environment and skilled hands to assist in their development, rehabilitate or re-train after racing career is over. to place these…
TRNL is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, retraining, retiring and rehoming thoroughbred ex-racehorses.
The take2 second career thoroughbred program inc is committed to promoting and developing second careers for racehorses when they have retired from racing.
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
Provide new careers for retired thoroughbred horses
We provide professional rehabilitation, retraining, and placement of retired thoroughbred racehorses with qualified adopters. we specialize in transitioning thoroughbreds with the proper care and quality training they need to succeed in…
To provide dedicated and compassionate care for retired and abandoned maryland thoroughbred race horses, to protect and rehabilitate maryland thoroughbred race horses; to promote second careers for retired maryland thoroughbred race horses…
Rescue former racehorses, provide retraining, provide rehabilitation and rehoming.
The ntra is a broadly defined membership association that is charged with increasing the popularity, welfare and integrity of thoroughbred racing.
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home god's neglected or abused equine through programs of shelter, adoption, education, and assistance.
The mission is to help ex racehorses find a second career when they are finished racing. Each horse is evaluated and rehabilitated as needed and placed with qualified adopters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Life Global. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
53 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. 53 of the 73 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 JACK HARLOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAREWORTHY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE RACES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds BETTYS BRAVE & BEAUTIFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS GROW NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE THOROUGHBREDS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MIMS RETIREMENT HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCELLER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR HOME INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE FINISH LINE ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECRETARIAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds PA RACEHORSE REHOMING REHABILITATION & RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NEW VOCATIONS RACEHORSE ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE FOUNDATI DBA THOROUGHBRED AFTERCARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MATHCOUNTS Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WEDNESDAYS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
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 · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Foundati Dba Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Limestone Family Foundation Inc · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation
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 Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.