· Public charity
The Wintercare Energy Fund Inc
The wintercare energy fund, inc.'s purposes are to aid the underprivileged residents of the commonwealth of kentucky to meet their need for energy and fuel for purposes of heating, cooking and lighting; to assist local community action agencies and others to identify and aid the residents of the commonwealth of kentucky who have fuel and…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $313,439 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $338,067 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,628 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAYETTE BOURB HARR NICH COUNTIES | $111,382 |
| BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC | $64,692 |
| KENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC | $30,567 |
| NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC | $24,954 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY ELECTRICAL ASSOCIATION | $20,659 |
| PENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $20,659 |
| AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $10,943 |
| CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC | $7,528 |
| MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC | $7,509 |
| TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC | $7,446 |
| GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $7,100 |
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 (FY17–25, $968k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACOMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +115%
- BGBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $428k · revenue +55%
- NKNORTHEAST KY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- BSBIG SANDY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Our mission is to reduce the causes and adverse consequences of poverty and to empower low-income individuals, families and communities to achieve self-sufficiency through advocacy, resource utilization and service delivery.
To provide a wide range of services in an effort to help improve the quality of life for people with an economic disadvantage.
Operate programs to assist low and moderate income individuals and families.
To aid low income families with early education, energy assistance, nutrition help and other services.
To assist individuals at or below the poverty line by providing resources, funding, and education.
Provide service and assistance to low income residents of armstrong county.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
The community action agency of talladega, clay, randolph, calhoun, and cleburne counties is committed to reducing and/or eliminating the causes and consequences of poverty for families and communities through comprehensive educational and…
Action for eastern montana is committed to strengthening and enhancing the quality of life within the communities we serve by promoting education, advocacy and dignity for achieving independence.
To empower and create opportunities for vulnerable individuals and families in our community to become socially and economically self sufficient through integrated social, educational, health, prevention, and other basic services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pennyrile Allied Community Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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 COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST KY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC ↗
- Who funds LICKING VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc ↗
- Who funds BELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARLAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SANDY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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.
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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 Wintercare Energy Fund Inc 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.