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Powell Family Charitable Foundation 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.

$118k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
42
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$51,181
Organizations funded a year
10 to 34
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving41$118k29%
FY202434$89k38%
FY202330$67k43%
FY202226$52k31%
FY202134$51k65%
FY202014$6k57%
FY201917$29k71%
FY201710$9kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$89kArts & Culture$68kEducation$51kHuman Services$40kReligion$12kHealth$11kPhilanthropy$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
CO
KY
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Art Center of the Bluegrass Inc$55,70053%
Main Street Perryville$54,1812n/a
First Christian Church$13,9504n/a
Grace Cafe Inc$10,00024%
Dream Flight Charities Inc$5,75031%
Mercer Chamber of Commerce Inc$4,50032%
Americas Kids Belong$4,50030%
Heritage Hospice Inc$4,05080%
Boyle County Band Association Inc$4,00028%
Richmond Area Arts Council Inc$3,75083%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Art Center of the Bluegrass Inc$55,70053%
Main Street Perryville$54,1812n/a
First Christian Church$13,9504n/a
Grace Cafe Inc$10,00024%
Dream Flight Charities Inc$5,75031%
Mercer Chamber of Commerce Inc$4,50032%
Americas Kids Belong$4,50030%
Heritage Hospice Inc$4,05080%
Boyle County Band Association Inc$4,00028%
Richmond Area Arts Council Inc$3,75083%
Danville Christian Academy$3,50020%
Aviation Museum of Kentucky Inc$3,00030%
Junction City Matters$2,5001n/a
Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc$2,50020%
Ephraim McDowell Health Inc$2,25020%
Eastern Kentucky University$1,6006n/a
Lakewood Ranch Wind Ensemble$1,5002n/a
Refuge for Women Inc$1,50010%
Danville-Boyle County Humane Society$1,30030%
Willow Creek Sanctuary Incorporated$1,0002n/a
The Harrodsburg Historical Society$1,00031%
Garrard County Arts Council$9003n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$72540%
Kendyl and Friends Foundation Inc$5001n/a
Lexington Theological Seminary$5001n/a
The Gladys Project Inc$5002n/a
Hooves of Hope Equestrian Center Inc$45020%
Deaf Youth Sports Festival$4001n/a
Shakertown at Pleasant Hill Kentucky Inc$30010%
Boyle Landmark Trust Inc$2501n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($235k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArt Center of the Bluegrass Inc: $55,700 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGrace Cafe Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetDream Flight Charities Inc: $5,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMercer Chamber of Commerce Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAmericas Kids Belong: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHeritage Hospice Inc: $4,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoyle County Band Association Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetRichmond Area Arts Council Inc: $3,750 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetDanville Christian Academy: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAviation Museum of Kentucky Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHeart of Kentucky United Way Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEphraim McDowell Health Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge for Women Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDanville-Boyle County Humane Society: $1,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Harrodsburg Historical Society: $1,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $725 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHooves of Hope Equestrian Center Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShakertown at Pleasant Hill Kentucky Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Trim Masters Charitable Foundation IncKY24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc reported 42 grants totaling $118,479 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (29%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (17%).
Who are Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Art Center of the Bluegrass Inc ($56k), Main Street Perryville ($54k), First Christian Church ($14k).
Does Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc, Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Corning Incorporated Foundation.
Where is Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc is based in KY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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