· Private foundation
The Greater Clark 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- FBO LEGACY GREENSCAPES | $220,000 |
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- FBO LEGACY GREENSCAPES | $100,000 |
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- FBO LEGACY GREENSCAPES | $100,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY EQUITY COALITION | $20,000 |
| THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION | $10,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY SOUTHEAST | $5,900 |
| KENTUCKY NONPROFIT NETWORK INC | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH | $3,325 |
| PACE - PHILANTHROPY FOR ACTIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT | $1,000 |
| PEAK GRANTMAKING | $1,000 |
| APPALACHIA FUNDERS NETWORK | $550 |
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 (FY20–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +102% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- MCMOUNTAIN COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTER INC3× · 2018–2021 · $58k · revenue +111%
- WCWINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS4× · 2018–2021 · $52k · revenue +267%
- CCCLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN3× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- BGBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION-FBO CLARK CNTY EQ COALITION AND PROUDTOWNone grant, 2024 · $45k
- LILEXARTS INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +14%
- WMWINCHETER MINORITY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE CLARK COUNTY COMUNITY FOUNDADTIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Kentucky resources council (krc) is a public-interest environmental law and advocacy organization that works to protect and defend the people, communities, and natural resources of kentucky. krc uses legal and strategic advocacy to protect…
Appalachian investment corporation works to increase economic activity in the appalachian counties of kentucky.
Khic's purpose is to plan, promote, initiate, and coordinate community, economic, and social development efforts. khic has used a venture capital approach yielding notable positive results. it has a strong base of capital with a portfolio…
Invest appalachia (ia) is a regional impact investment platform designed by and for the people of central appalachia. ia provides blended investment capital to strengthen business opportunities, build equitable local wealth, advance…
To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
Provide support and services to strenthen, support, and grow the capacity of local central kentucky nonprofits.
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peak Grantmaking Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beacon of Hope Emergency Shelter 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 73 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 LEGACY GREENSCAPES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING RECOVERY TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY NONPROFIT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
- Who funds I WAS HERE INC ↗
- Who funds ESTILL COUNTY 21ST CENTURY INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY EQUITY COALITION CORP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RED OAKS CENTER FOR NATURE AND THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOCUS IMPACT INVESTING ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES 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 · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US · E&W G Foundation · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Tc Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Greater Clark 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.