· Private foundation
The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 86% of The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First Presbyterian Church | $500 |
| Easterseals | $400 |
| Sayre School | $200 |
| Lexington Humane Society | $200 |
| Charleston Animal Society | $150 |
| Cardinal Hill Foundation | $100 |
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 (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +32% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 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
- SSSAYRE SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +32%
- LSLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +14%
- CCCORPUS CHRISTI INC2× · 2017–2018 · $900 · revenue +27%
Funded once
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +67%
- PMPHI MU FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +51%
- TBTOWN BRANCH PARK INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -74%
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 represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.
To foster excellence and innovation in performances and presentation of great music; to enrich the lives of our diverse citizenry; to educate current and future audiences and to bring distinction to our community through the orchestra's…
To honor, celebrate, and maintain in perpetuity the beauty and dignity of our cemetery for past, present, and future generations.
The lexington public library foundation envisions a thriving public library enriched by philanthropy and advocacy.
Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Lexington christian academy is an independent college preparatory school that exists to educate young men and women in the arts and sciences in the context of a complete commitment to the gospel of jesus christ.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 57 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 58 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 SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PHI MU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia Art House Inc ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORPUS CHRISTI INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds BABY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TAKE THE LEAD 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 · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Baird Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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 The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee 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.