· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| GREEN RIVER DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| CATHEDRAL PRESCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF OHIO VALLEY | $3,000 |
| IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF DAVIESS CO | $3,000 |
| H L NEBLETT COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,000 |
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, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 67 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 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 Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORODAVIESS COUNTY REGIONAL DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Public Life Foundation of Owensboro funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Public Life Foundation of Owensboro. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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