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The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc

The mission of the lexington cancer foundation, inc.

$463k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$365k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $453,433, the rows itemized in this filing. The $463,433 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $365k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CAMP HORSIN' AROUND: $750 → 15%Hospice of the Bluegrass: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 98%.

The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 20 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
12

Total granted

$1.9M
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+19%

Still filing today

70%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KC
    KENTUCKY CANCERLINK INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +444%
  • BH
    Baptist Healthcare System Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $52k · revenue +129%
  • MH
    Memorial Hospital Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • KR
    KENTUCKY RURAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • FM
    FLAGET MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -88%
  • BH
    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +21%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
2
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc

Support for Markey Cancer Center Hospital building expansion and research projects.

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3
Roane County Medical Center

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.

Health
4
Wellmont Health System

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.

Health
5
Baptist Health Medical Group Inc

To provide healthcare services and facilities that benefit the communities we serve.

Health
6
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
7
Bowling Green Warren County Community Hospital Corporation

Our mission is to care for people and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.

Health
8
Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health
9
Baptist Health Foundation Richmond Inc

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,…

Human Services
10
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

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…

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11
Jefferson Hospital Association Inc

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.

Health
12
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $920,711 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $112,250 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYTRI-COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC: $90,625 · OtherTRI-COUNTY CANCER COALITION INCKENTUCKY PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INC: $73,250 · OtherKENTUCKY PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INCCLAY COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC: $58,300 · Other+8 more: $99,220 · Other+8 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $153,100 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $99,167 · HealthAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCAR…KENTUCKY CANCERLINK INC: $80,000 · HealthKENTUCKY CANCERLINK INCBaptist Healthcare System Inc: $52,390 · HealthBaptist Healthcare System IncMemorial Hospital Inc: $46,771 · HealthMemorial Hospital IncPIKEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $36,250 · HealthPIKEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER INCPROJECT CAMP INC: $35,000 · HealthPROJECT CAMP INCKENTUCKY RURAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE INC: $20,000 · Health+6 more: $40,680 · Health+6 moreST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $131,078 · EducationJARRETT'S JOY CART INC: $17,797 · Human ServicesHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $20,405 · Public BenefitTwisted Pink Inc: $9,375 · Philanthropy
Other$1,354,356Health$563,358Education$131,078Human Services$23,547Public Benefit$20,405Philanthropy$9,375

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetAPPALACHIAN REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $99,167 over 7y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Foundat…The Whas Crusade for …Honorable Order of Ke…Roaring Brook Foundat…Ky Hospital Research …Baptist Healthcare Sy…Cralle Foundation IncRepublic Bank Foundat…Baird Foundation IncGeorge and Mary Jo Bu…Norton Healthcare IncBlue Grass Community …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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