· Public charity
The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc
The mission of the lexington cancer foundation, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $453,433 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $463,433 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $250k+1 grant · $365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UK DIVISION OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY | $364,973 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY HOPE LODGE | $30,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH LEXINGTON | $20,460 |
| SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY CANCER LINK | $10,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY CANCER COALITION | $10,000 |
| ADVENT HEALTH MANCHESTER | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 98% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KCKENTUCKY CANCERLINK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +412%
- BHBaptist Healthcare System Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $52k · revenue +111%
- MHMemorial Hospital Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- KRKENTUCKY RURAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE INCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- FMFLAGET MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -88%
- BHBaptist Health Deaconess Madisonvilleone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +21%
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 provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.
Support for Markey Cancer Center Hospital building expansion and research projects.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Honor those we serve by delivering the best possible care.Ballad Health is dedicated to improving the health of the 29-county Appalachian Highlands region.
To provide healthcare services and facilities that benefit the communities we serve.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
The mission of Baptist Health Foundation Richmond is to serve as an instrument to assist, advance and strengthen Baptist Health Richmond hospital in its mission and ministry of healing, in its service as a health center for the community,…
Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…
Jefferson regional's mission is improving health through excellence and compassion with a vision to be the healthcare provider and employer of choice for southeast arkansas.
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jarrett's Joy Cart 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 38 years old; the field is 17. 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 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.
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 33 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CANCERLINK INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Healthcare System Inc ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds PIKEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD HUDSON CANCER RESEARCH LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD HEALTH IDEAS INC DBA COLON CANCER PREVENTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RURAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds JARRETT'S JOY CART INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGET MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKCASTLE HOSPITAL & RESPIRATORY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Twisted Pink Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIEND FOR LIFE A CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Richmond Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Women With Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICKS & CHUCKS INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HORSIN' AROUND CAMP 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: 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
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 Lexington Cancer Foundation 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.