· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COACHES FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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