· Private foundation
The Tallent Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROGET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| WESTBRIAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA | $20,000 |
| THE KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME | $20,000 |
| BETSEY LAYNE HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FLOYD CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PRESTONSBURG HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE | $10,000 |
| THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRESTONSBURG LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| PIKEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JOHNSON CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JENNY WILEY | $5,000 |
| MARTIN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 59% of your 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 15% of The Tallent 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF JENNY WILEY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $35k
- WEWESTBRIAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue -51% · 26% of their budget
- KHKENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME INC2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue -85%
Funded once
- UFUSGA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $200k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 foster, promote and advance the interests and the true spirit of the game of golf throughout the commonwealth of kentucky, and in conjunction therewith to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf association, and to…
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
To promote the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.
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…
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
The mission of the kentucky pharmacists association is to promote the profession of pharmacy, enhance the practice standards of the profession, and demonstrate the value of pharmacist services within the health care system. the association…
To promote the health and welfare of all infants, children, and adolescents.
The eku foundation provides support for eastern kentucky university in accomplishing its goals of education and regional stewardship within its southeastern kentucky service region.
The mission of western kentucky university foundation (wkuf) is to create a culture of philanthropy that will advance the goals of wku through prudent and trusted financial management and investment of resources given for the benefit of…
Nonprofit foundation created to support and further the educational, charitable, and public purposes and activities of the kentucky authority for educational television. the organization's primary purpose is to receive, hold, and…
Support for Markey Cancer Center Hospital building expansion and research projects.
Through the framework of the greatest game ever played, the kentucky golf foundation seeks to impact kentucky's youth, military and those of diversity using golf as a toolkit.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boredom Busters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 38 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 USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTBRIAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FALLS CHURCH KIWANIS LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Boredom Busters ↗
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: Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tallent 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.