· Public charity
Northern Kentucky Area Development District
Our mission is to assist the northern kentucky community in effectively entering the 21st century through the provision of high quality and technically advanced staff services to local governments, agencies, and citizens.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 93% of NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT’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.
The 26 grants below total $5,335,020 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,021,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,686,095 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS SW OH & NKY | $1,731,379 |
| BRIGHTON CENTER | $695,707 |
| LIFE LEARNING CENTER | $483,587 |
| LIFELINE HOMECARE INC | $339,704 |
| VISITING ANGELS | $313,414 |
| ST ELIZABETH BUSINESS HEALTH | $236,988 |
| TRANSITIONS INC | $156,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE | $143,960 |
| LEGAL AID OF THE BLUEGRASS | $137,770 |
| R C DURR YMCA | $121,726 |
| NKY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION | $118,212 |
| NKY HEALTH DEPT | $113,153 |
| INTERIM HEALTH CARE | $103,019 |
| BAWAC INC | $91,351 |
| HELPING HANDS NKY | $85,781 |
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 (FY21–25, $612k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
70 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k 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
- BCBrighton Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +31%
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
- OAOhio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $749k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- VOVARIOUD OTHER GRANTS 5000one grant, 2023 · $17M
- KCKENTUCKY CAREER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $217k
- KCKENTUCKY CAREER CENTER (CITY OF COVone grant, 2018 · $204k
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 serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
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We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.
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To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Transforming the lives of individuals with disabilities and other barriers through pathways to independence and the power of work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is CCRM1. 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 55 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 140 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 Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Ohio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAWAC INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS INCORPORATED ↗
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: St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Butler Foundation · Interact for Health · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · Chas and Ruth Seligman Family Foundation Inc · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund
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 Northern Kentucky Area Development District 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.