· Private foundation
The Jeff & Lora Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHRYSALIS HOUSE | $161 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 +53% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILEXARTS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +25%
- LMLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +187%
- CHCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC3× · 2018–2023 · $1k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- TFTHE FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $500
- LVLEXINGTON VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEMone grant, 2021 · $250
- SFSMITHLAND FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $200
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.
The Junior League of Lexington is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. The League's purpose is exclusively…
RADIOLEX provides multiple media platforms to amplify underrepresented local voices and promote an equitable, inclusive community while nurturing an informed and safe Lexington.
The mission of the commerce lexington foundation is to be a catalyst for positive impact on talent, quality of life and economic well-being for the citizens of the greater lexington region, by enabling commerce lexington to expand its…
Art appreciation for fergus county and the surrounding area.
To foster, encourage, and develop popular public appreciation of all forms of the visual arts, through sponsoring speakers, classes and exhibits, and to operate a facility where artists may avail themselves of the study of the visual arts
Lace center and Museum for exhibitions, beginners education, continuing education with study library
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…
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 24 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.
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- Who funds JESSAMINE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jeff & Lora Carter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jeff & Lora Carter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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