· Public charity
Ohio Valley United Charities Inc
Award grants to non-profit entities that provide services for children, the elderly, education,domestic violence, rape, and substance abuse consulting
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 25 grants below total $235,878 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $274,578 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $38,700 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRIMBLE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| TRIMBLE CO FOUNDATION FOR EDU | $18,100 |
| EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE OF OWE | $15,800 |
| FRIENDS OF OWEN COUNTY PUBLIC | $12,483 |
| FOOD PANTRY OF CARROLL COUNTY | $12,000 |
| CARROLL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,500 |
| EDUCATIONAL EXCEL FOUND OF C | $10,000 |
| OWEN COUNTY PARK & REC COMMUN | $10,000 |
| GOOD NEWS SHELTER CORP | $10,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL EXCEL FOUND OF GA | $10,000 |
| JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECH CO | $10,000 |
| HOPE HEALTH CLINIC - LAGRANGE | $8,500 |
| FRIENDS OF HENRY COUNTY PUBLI | $8,500 |
| GALLATIN COUNTY 4-H COUNCIL | $8,000 |
| CARROLL CO EXTENSION FOUNDATI | $8,000 |
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, $53k) 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.
24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- EEEDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF GALLATIN COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +43% · 38% of their budget
- K4KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $61k · revenue +61%
- GNGOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- PEPURE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -48%
- OVOhio Valley Educational Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +31%
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.
Food pantry
Assist the needy/homeless individuals in the area
To support families in need
To support library initiatives through fundraising and grants. its key focus areas include early childhood, the archive & history center, capital projects, and general donations.
Provides food, disaster/emergency services, prescription, homeless and veteran assistance, and Christmas assistance
Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
Providing food for those in need.
Our organization helps families and children with tangible support throughout the year. Our funds go directly to providing food, clothing, basic living needs, backpacks and other things they need to help them get through their day. Each…
Literary - educational
Empowering the community through prevention, education, and leadership roles in reducing alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, and other harmful behaviors amoung our youth and families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky 4H Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Owen County Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 14. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION OF GALLATIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF CARROLL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY EXTENSION FOUNDATION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE OWEN COUNTY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Haven of Hope Prc Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HOPES HANDS COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds HOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PURE EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Valley Educational Foundation 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ohio Valley United Charities 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.
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