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The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc

The mission of the lexington cancer foundation, inc. Organization is to create awareness and raise funds in the fight against cancer. The organization is also dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare for cancer patients.

$463k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$453k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$364,973
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$453k0%
FY20248$466k13%
FY20239$201k11%
FY202213$179k31%
FY202114$67k43%
FY202013$211k15%
FY201913$172k15%
FY201813$123k31%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.1MPublic Benefit$20kRecreation & Sports$750

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Kentucky$920,7119n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$153,10040%
St Joseph Hospital Foundation Inc$131,07893%
American Cancer Society$112,2503n/a
Tri-County Cancer Coalition Inc$90,6258n/a
Kentucky Cancerlink Inc$80,000810%
Kentucky Prostate Cancer Coalition Inc$73,2507n/a
Clay County Cancer Coalition Inc$58,3006n/a
Baptist Healthcare System Inc$52,39060%
Memorial Hospital Inc$46,77140%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Kentucky$920,7119n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$153,10040%
St Joseph Hospital Foundation Inc$131,07893%
American Cancer Society$112,2503n/a
Tri-County Cancer Coalition Inc$90,6258n/a
Kentucky Cancerlink Inc$80,000810%
Kentucky Prostate Cancer Coalition Inc$73,2507n/a
Clay County Cancer Coalition Inc$58,3006n/a
Baptist Healthcare System Inc$52,39060%
Memorial Hospital Inc$46,77140%
Pikeville Medical Center Inc$36,25030%
Project Camp Inc$35,00040%
Wood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory Inc$23,00021%
Good Health Ideas Inc Dba Colon Cancer Prevention Project$21,00034%
Kids Cancer Alliance Inc$20,40541%
Kentucky Rural Health Collaborative Inc$20,00015%
Jarrett's Joy Cart Inc$17,797225%
Flaget Memorial Hospital Foundation$12,00010%
Rockcastle Hospital & Respiratory Care Center Inc$11,75020%
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville$11,68010%
St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc$10,00020%
Twisted Pink Inc$9,37520%
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc$5,00010%
Friend for Life a Cancer Support Network Inc$5,0001n/a
Baptist Health Richmond Inc$4,2601n/a
Norton Healthcare Foundation Inc$3,75010%
Cancer Treatment Center for Southern Ky$2,5001n/a
Women With Wings Inc$2,00012%
Chicks & Chucks Inc$1,50013%
Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky Inc$1,00010%
Horsin' Around Camp Inc$75010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $153,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph Hospital Foundation Inc: $131,078 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetKentucky Cancerlink Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetBaptist Healthcare System Inc: $52,390 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hospital Inc: $46,771 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPikeville Medical Center Inc: $36,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Camp Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWood Hudson Cancer Research Laboratory Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGood Health Ideas Inc Dba Colon Cancer Prevention Project: $21,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetKids Cancer Alliance Inc: $20,405 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKentucky Rural Health Collaborative Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetJarrett's Joy Cart Inc: $17,797 over 2y, 25% of budgetFlaget Memorial Hospital Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRockcastle Hospital & Respiratory Care Center Inc: $11,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Health Deaconess Madisonville: $11,680 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTwisted Pink Inc: $9,375 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorton Healthcare Foundation Inc: $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen With Wings Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetChicks & Chucks Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBrain Injury Alliance of Kentucky Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHorsin' Around Camp Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository IncKY25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · Ky Hospital Research & Education Foundation Inc · Baptist Healthcare System Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · Norton Healthcare Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc

How much does The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc give?
The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $453,433, out of $463,433 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (99%), Public Benefit (1%), Recreation & Sports (0%).
Who are The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Kentucky ($921k), American Cancer Society Inc ($153k), St Joseph Hospital Foundation Inc ($131k).
Does The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc, The Whas Crusade for Children Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc.
Where is The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc based?
The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc is based in KY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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