· Private foundation
Orphan Society of Lexington Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| GODS PANTRY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE NEST - CTR FOR WOMEN CHILDREN & FAM | $10,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| BABY HEALTH SERVICE INC | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON WOMENS CLUB | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BLACK CHURCH COALITION | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL KY | $9,000 |
| OPEN DOOR CHURCH | $8,000 |
| CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| COMMON GOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $8,000 |
| LEXINGTON HEARING AND SPEECH | $7,500 |
| BLUEGRASS YOUTH BALLET | $7,500 |
| THE CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +87%
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 +191%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.…
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…
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…
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…
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 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,…
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
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.
Our Mission is to invest in children and their families; preparing them for a lifelong love of learning by providing a nurturing and supportive environment.
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.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Orphan Society of Lexington Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orphan Society of Lexington Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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