· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BOURBON CO KY YMCA | $25,000 |
| THE KENTUCKY AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| NICHOLAS CO HISTORICAL SOC | $25,000 |
| NICHOLAS COUNTY KY TOURISM BOARD | $25,000 |
| CROSSROADS SHELTER | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $10,000 |
| UK-GOODIN FUND | $10,000 |
| NICHOLAS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE AND YOUTH SERVICES CENTER | $7,500 |
| NICHOLAS CO KY FFA | $7,500 |
| OPERATION FOOD BASKET | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 97% of The Mulhollem Cravens Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 5%.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 71 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mulhollem Cravens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mulhollem Cravens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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