· Private foundation
Opera House Fund Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
- $250k+1 grant · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $290,000 |
| LEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION | $91,678 |
| UK OPERA THEATRE | $91,601 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ARTS SCHOOL (SCAPA) | $66,277 |
| LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY | $60,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $39,850 |
| KENTUCKY BALLET THEATRE | $33,076 |
| BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET | $16,817 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,091 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $7,982 |
| THE LEXINGTON SINGERS | $7,490 |
| CENTRAL KENTUCKY CONCERT BAND | $4,020 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,924 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 97% of your 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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- LCLEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +132%
- LTLEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY4× · 2022–2025 · $432k · revenue +365%
- LCLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LTLEXINGTON THEATRE COone grant, 2020 · $60k
- RTREPERTORY THEATRE INCone grant, 2021 · $9k
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 mission of lafayette ballet theatre is to provide artistic dance education and cultural programs in the community. lafayette ballet theatre encourages and stimulates development of the performing arts through the offering of…
Studio Players Inc. is a non-profit community theatre in Lexington KY. Incorporated in 1952 the organizations mission is to provide the greater Lexington KY area with a wide array of live theatre production that will be enjoyed by a wide…
The Kentucky Theatre is a historic building in downtown Lexington, KY, that had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Purchased by the City of Lexington, The Friends of the Kentucky Theatre Inc is a nonprofit tasked with overseeing the…
Theatrical stage performances.
To secure long term financial support through public and private sources and to promote philanthropic activities to benefit the foundation's endowment to support the lexington philharmonic society, inc.
To preserve and promote the Latin American and Spanish cultures by performing for diverse audiences for charitable and educational purposes. The company provides professional training to its dancers and students and enhances the community…
The associations purpose is to give the community an opportunity to participate in theatrical productions and expose the community to cultural events
The organization operates a 10-day festival and year round concerts in Lexington, Ky. It is the mission of the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington to present innovative, accessible, and inclusive chamber music performances of the highest…
The organizations mission is to enrich lives and connect the community through opportunities to experience beautiful and high-quality symphonic music with a vision that the organization is a vibrant and integral leader of the Lynchburg,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Children's Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lexington Singers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 LEXINGTON CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON BALLET COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre of Lexington Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SINGERS ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY 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.
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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 Opera House Fund 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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