· Private foundation
Orphan Society of Lexington Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k18 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| BABY HEALTH SERVICE INC | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON WOMENS CLUB | $10,000 |
| BLACK CHURCH COALITION | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GODS PANTRY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE NEST - CTR FOR WOMEN CHILDREN & FAM | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL KY | $9,000 |
| OPEN DOOR CHURCH | $8,000 |
| COMMON GOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $8,000 |
| CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH | $7,500 |
| BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET | $7,500 |
| THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
- BHBABY HEALTH SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +22%
- CDCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- RERUBY E BAILEY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- BBBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERSone grant, 2021 · $4k
- HCHENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +111%
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 child care council of kentucky is committed to supporting providers, empowering families and strengthening communities by expanding access to high quality child care resources, advocacy, and training.
Our mission is to inspire curiosity and empower individuals to explore and experiment with science in all its forms. we embrace a "do science" philosophy: play, tinker, collaborate, test, experiment, learn from mistakes, and try again.…
Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
The kentucky main street association empowers communities by providing training, education, and resources that strengthen local main street programs, directors, and the public. through a focus on historic preservation, restoration, and…
For nearly 50 years, kentucky youth advocates (kya) has worked to improve child well-being, public policies, and systems that influence the lives of children, families, and communities. kya is the only multi-issue, statewide child advocacy…
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,…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
To provide professional theatre experiences for young audiences. to provide quality theatre education for young people annually. lct provides quality theatre experiences and theatre arts education for as many as 150,000 children throughout…
Provide services to governmental agencies.
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.
The kentucky ymca youth association develops engaged citizens and servant leaders, inspired to affect change in their school, community, commonwealth, nation, and world. through experiential learning, service, and community activism, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Children's Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Central Music Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 40 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 BABY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Common Good Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc
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 Orphan Society of Lexington Trust 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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