· Private foundation
The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation)
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE MT BRILLIANT FAMILY FOUNDATION (FORMERLY HGG FAMILY FOUNDATION)’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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAYRE SCHOOL | $130,541 |
| MARANATHA INTERNATIONAL | $31,553 |
| FAYETTE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE RACE FOR EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| UK MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION | $19,820 |
| THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| LEXINGTON CHALLENGER TENNIS CHARITY INC | $5,000 |
| LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- SSSAYRE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
- FAFAYETTE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $735k · revenue +54%
Vanderbilt University3× · 2017–2019 · $525k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF MEDICINEone grant, 2024 · $400k
- OORGANIZEone grant, 2017 · $150k
- TLTHE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue -6%
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.
Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…
To provide exclusively for the benefit, aid, relief, and assistance of the racing personnel employed in connection with horse racing who can demonstrate their need for financial assistance.
To advertise, foster and promote the thoroughbred horse industry in the commonwealth of kentucky
To promote the development of tennis as a means of healthful recreation and physical fitness in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The take2 second career thoroughbred program inc is committed to promoting and developing second careers for racehorses when they have retired from racing.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…
Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is BoxtoBox 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 95 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 SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RACE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Bluegrass Sports Commission Inc ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC ↗
- Who funds COACHES FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc · Ee Murry Family Foundation · Limestone Family Foundation Inc · Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming · Baird 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 Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) 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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