· Private foundation
Tallgrass Farm 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UK OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY | $121,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,910 |
| THE BERRY CENTER | $28,170 |
| FOODCHAIN | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION KENTUCKY | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $3,170 |
| KET | $3,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY YOUTH 4-H INVESTMENT | $3,000 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC | $2,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL | $2,500 |
| HARRODSBURG CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST | $1,000 |
| HARRODSBURG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of your 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 +179% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TBTHE BERRY CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +2%
- HSHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +160%
- AFAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST4× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- UPUNITED PRESBYTERIAN CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $13k
- FOFRIENDS OF FORT HARROD INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -11% · 25% of their budget
- FCFOOD CONNECTION - UNIVERSITY OF KENone 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.
Wildlife conservation
To preserve blackacre's natural and historic features, promote outdoor environmental education, and share blackacre's cultural heritage with the community.
Wwlt's mission is to establish conservation easements in the lower kentucky river region for the myriad of benefits that result from effective land conservation and protection. wwlt seeks to meet these objectives by focusing on three main…
Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…
River fields protects, preserves, and enhances the natural and cultural resources, including agricultural and scenic resources, on both sides of the ohio river between westport and west point, kentucky, for the benefit of the public.we…
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…
Conservation education and promotion
The kentucky historical society foundation exists solely to assist and support the kentucky historical society (khs). khs's mission is to educate and engage the public through kentucky history in order to confront the challenges of the…
To help create legacies to enrich the lives of all citizens of the commonwealth of kentucky, continue providing resources for youth development, and communicate the traditions and technology of kentucky agriculture.we also aim to continue…
To protect, restore and celebrate kentucky's unique waterways and watersheds.
Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
The Kentucky Theatre is a historic building in downtown Lexington, KY, that had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Purchased by the City of Lexington, The Friends of the Kentucky Theatre Inc is a nonprofit tasked with overseeing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Humanities Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodsongs Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 75 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 THE BERRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Humanities Council Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FORT HARROD INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN ARTISAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Clifton Foundation Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Josephine Ardery Foundation Inc · Kentucky Humanities Council 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 Tallgrass Farm Foundation Inc 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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