· Private foundation
The Copia Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $338k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REFUGE MINISTRIES INC - THE REFUGE CLINIC | $35,000 |
| JESSAMINE COUNTY SCHOOLS - THE PROVIDENCE SCHOOL | $28,000 |
| DIVINE PROVIDENCE INC DBA THE CATHOLIC ACTION CENTER INC | $22,500 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC | $20,000 |
| MENTORS & MEALS INC | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| REVIVE MINISTRIESINC | $20,000 |
| REFUGE FOR WOMEN KENTUCKY | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC | $15,000 |
| ONEIDA BAPTIST INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| WOMEN'S CARE CENTER | $14,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WOMAN'S CLUB INCORPORATED | $13,000 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS SKI TEAM | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY DANCE BLUE - GOLDEN MATRIX FUND | $10,000 |
| CASA OF LEXINGTON INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $446k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +72% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +120%- RMRevive Ministries Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +468%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- DPDIVINE PROVIDENCE INC - GIVE KIDS A HOMEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- RMREFUGE MINISTRIESINCone grant, 2020 · $27k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY - JESSAMINE COUNTY - EMERGENCY HOMELESS SHELTERone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
To empower and support individuals with disabilities and their families to effectively advocate for and access needed information, resources and support networks in order to enhance the quality of their lives.
To provide homes and healing for orphan children and displaced single parent families.
To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
The shelter of hope's mission is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and permanent housing assistance for individuals and families in need of transitional services leading them to self-sufficiency. provisions are made without…
The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.
The mission of chrysalis house inc. is to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance use disorders.
King's ranch is a privately funded, nonprofit, nondenominational christian children's home organized to provide hope for adopted children and their families who are at risk of disruption because of the trauma the child incurred from abuse,…
We provide hospice and palliative care through loving support to our residents under the age of 21 and their families during their difficult life challenges. itis our goal to enable the residents and their families to focus on the joys of…
To insure safe and secure homes for abused, neglected and troubled children; committed to a continuim of professional care that provides parental training, support and services to maximize the growth and development of each child in a…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home of the Innocents Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Justin King Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 95 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 SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Revive Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BABY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DIVINE PROVIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Mentors and Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Ee Murry Family Foundation
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 The Copia 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.