· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- FBO LEGACY GREENSCAPES | $100,000 |
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION- FBO LEGACY GREENSCAPES | $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 |
| PEAK GRANTMAKING | $1,000 |
| PACE - PHILANTHROPY FOR ACTIVE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT | $1,000 |
| APPALACHIA FUNDERS NETWORK | $550 |
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 (FY20–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +102% since the first grant, against +47% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IWI WAS HERE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +209% · 30% of their budget
- WMWINCHETER MINORITY LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE CLARK COUNTY COMUNITY FOUNDADTIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
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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.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 73 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 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 I WAS HERE INC ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS 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 FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MADISON AND CLARK COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds LOCUS IMPACT INVESTING ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Greater Clark Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greater Clark Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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