· Private foundation
The Mulhollem Cravens 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE CENTER | $100,000 |
| LEXINGTON KY RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| KY FFA FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER | $50,000 |
| KET-KY PBS STATION | $35,000 |
| NICHOLAS CO HISTORICAL SOC | $25,000 |
| BOURBON CO KY YMCA | $25,000 |
| THE KENTUCKY AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| NICHOLAS COUNTY KY TOURISM BOARD | $25,000 |
| CROSSROADS SHELTER | $20,000 |
| UK-GOODIN FUND | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $10,000 |
| NICHOLAS CO KY FFA | $7,500 |
| NICHOLAS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE AND YOUTH SERVICES CENTER | $7,500 |
| OPERATION FOOD BASKET | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 97% of The Mulhollem Cravens Foundation’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, 82% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 5% — 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 +72% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $235k · revenue +72%
- TLTREES LEXINGTON3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +274%
- IIITNBLUEGRASS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- LRLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +22%
- LCLEXINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- NCNICHOLAS COUNTY FISCAL COURTone grant, 2021 · $75k
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 serve those in need by acquiring and distributing food, grocery items, and government commodities through a network of charitable partnering agencies in 42 kentucky counties.
To end hunger in collaboration with kentucky's feeding america food banks and partners, through advocacy and resource development.
Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…
The Louisville Community Food Pantry, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing supplemental groceries to families and individuals in Jefferson County who are in need. We provide food in a way that supports and sustains the dignity of…
Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…
Kentucky harvest's purpose is to end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.
To support those in need and improve the quality of life throughout the commonwealth of kentucky.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…
Increase agricultural footprint in letcher co ky and surrounding counties; establish permanent outlet for local farm products and creation of value added products; access to healthy local food; gain skills in preparing foods; offering of…
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Pantry Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carlisle-Nicholas Co Tourism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 71 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 THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PARIS BOURBON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARLISLE-NICHOLAS CO TOURISM INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BOOK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Keeneland Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Snowy Owl 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 Mulhollem Cravens 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.