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Public Life Foundation of Owensboro
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 $10k16 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $369k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAF GIVING 360 - THE JOHN AND MARJORIE HAGER FUND | $3,518,819 |
| GOODFELLOWS CLUB OF OWENSBORO | $500,300 |
| OWENSBORO FAMILY YMCA | $149,194 |
| PRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE | $100,000 |
| THE CENTER OF OWENSBORO | $70,000 |
| GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,650 |
| DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $6,268 |
| MIRACLE OF KY AND TN FBO H L NEBLETT CENTER | $5,000 |
| SCHOLASTIC INC FBO OWENSBORO HEALTH PEDIATRICS | $4,649 |
| UNITED WAY OF OHIO VALLEY | $3,000 |
| CATHEDRAL PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| H L NEBLETT COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF DAVIESS CO | $3,000 |
| GREEN RIVER DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $633k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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
- GCGOODFELLOWS CLUB OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $624k · revenue +520% · 44% of their budget
- PCPRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $520k · revenue +377%
- FYFamily Y of Owensboro-Daviess Co6× · 2020–2025 · $307k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ODOWENSBORO DAV CO REGIONAL DENTAL CLINICone grant, 2020 · $20k
- WCWYLDE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
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,…
Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Our mission is to provide patient centered medical and behavioral health services to our community. As a nonprofit organization, we provide these services to all persons, including our communitys most vulnerable - regardless of financial…
To provide economic development to southeastern kentucky.
The primary mission is to support intellectually disabled people in the community through vocational training and work opportunities. our goal is to develop and establish new vocational opportunities for existing clientele and to increase…
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.
Owensboro health, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the communities we serve.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.
Strengthen, unite, and mobilize education, business and community partners in Northern Kentucky to advance student success and wellbeing from early childhood through post-secondary/career.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Owensboro-Dav County and the most unlike its peers is Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 67 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 GOODFELLOWS CLUB OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds PRICHARD COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Family Y of Owensboro-Daviess Co ↗
- Who funds GREATER OWENSBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER OWENSBORO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN RIVER ASSET BUILDING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HL NEBLETT COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYLDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL PITINO SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARILYN & WILLIAM YOUNG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC C/O SARA HEMINGWAY EX DI ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORODAVIESS COUNTY REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast 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: Owensboro Health Inc · Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · B J Killian Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Lawrence & Augusta Hager Educational Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Impact 100 - Owensboro Inc · Baird 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 Public Life Foundation of Owensboro 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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