· Private foundation
The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE KING'S DAUGHTERS AND SONS FOUNDATION OF KENTUCKY INC’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $451k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZEROV | $56,251 |
| KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $40,260 |
| LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE | $24,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,385 |
| EXODUS FAMILY MINISTRIES | $23,382 |
| NAZARETH HOME | $22,693 |
| THE CENTER FOR COURAGEOUS KIDS | $21,074 |
| HOSPICE CARE PLUS INC | $21,000 |
| COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF ASHLAND | $20,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BUCKHORN CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES | $18,500 |
| LEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $18,213 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL OF NURSING | $18,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 94% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 21 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k 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
BEREA COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +50%- PCPROJECT CAMP INC8× · 2018–2025 · $139k · revenue +55%
- LRLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION5× · 2019–2025 · $133k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- DKDV8 KITCHENone grant, 2024 · $36k
- KMKENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE INCone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue -26%
- FIFOODCHAIN INCone grant, 2024 · $32k · revenue 0%
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.
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual. christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living, 24-hour skilled nursing…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
The carmelite sisters of the divine heart of jesus of kentucky strive to maintain our home as a true home away from home for our residents. our residents are senior citizens and disabled residents.
Hospice of hope is an organization devoted to caring for the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill individuals and their families. the organization also provides for an assisted living facility in…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.
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 Operation Open Arms Inc. 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 38 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) — 1% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 141 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 BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY RIDING FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ZEROV INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY MANOR RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ITNBLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds HAZARD INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN BIBLE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAYRE CHRISTIAN VILLAGE NURSING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOODCHAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Missions ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE 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.
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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 King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky 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.
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