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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…

$338k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$1.0MCommunity Improvement$321kEnvironment$134k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $313,439, the rows itemized in this filing. The $338,067 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,628 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$20,659
Median grant
1
States reached
$540k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 15%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $11k → 13%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $65k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $18k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $42k → 20%LAKE CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $10k → 20%LICKING VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $9k → 21%HARLAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $7k → 27%BELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $6k → 30%DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $8k → 35%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $9k → 13%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $65k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $17k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $41k → 20%LAKE CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $7k → 20%LICKING VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $9k → 21%BELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $6k → 30%DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $8k → 35%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8k → 13%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $62k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $15k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $28k → 20%LAKE CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $7k → 20%LICKING VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $6k → 21%BELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $6k → 30%DANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $6k → 35%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8k → 13%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $51k → 14%Central Kentucky Community Action Council Inc: $14k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $25k → 20%Bell-Whitley Community Action Agency Inc: $6k → 30%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8k → 13%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $45k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $12k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $20k → 20%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7k → 13%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $40k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $12k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $18k → 20%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $7k → 13%Blue Grass Community Partnership Inc: $40k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $11k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $17k → 20%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $39k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $8k → 19%Northeast Kentucky Community Action Agency Inc: $15k → 20%BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $23k → 14%CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $7k → 19%NORTHEAST KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $9k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 17 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
1

Total granted

$2.6M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
0%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +115%
  • BG
    BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $428k · revenue +55%
  • NK
    NORTHEAST KY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • BS
    BIG SANDY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Action of Southern Kentucky Inc

We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.

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2
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
3
Community Action Agency of Northwest Alabama Inc

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.

—
4
South Central Community Action Partnership Inc

To provide a wide range of services in an effort to help improve the quality of life for people with an economic disadvantage.

—
5
Ohio Heartland Community Action

Operate programs to assist low and moderate income individuals and families.

Human Services
6
Community Action Agency Inc

To aid low income families with early education, energy assistance, nutrition help and other services.

Human Services
7
Community Action Agency of Northeast Alabama Inc

To assist individuals at or below the poverty line by providing resources, funding, and education.

Human Services
8
Armstrong County Community Action Agency

Provide service and assistance to low income residents of armstrong county.

Human Services
9
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

—
10
Community Action Agency of Talladega Clay Randolph Calhoun & Cleburne Count

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…

Community Improvement
11
Action for Eastern Montana

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.

Human Services
12
Tri-County Community Action Agency

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tri-County Community Action Agency Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $428,099 · Human ServicesBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCNORTHEAST KY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $215,497 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST KY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $114,188 · Human ServicesCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCAUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $64,687 · Human ServicesAUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INCMULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $59,629 · Human ServicesMULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INCDANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC: $49,484 · Human ServicesLICKING VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $34,430 · Human Services+3 more: $61,563 · Human Services+3 moreCOMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC: $1,009,986 · EducationCOMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR …KENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $182,211 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY RIVER…PENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $115,623 · Community ImprovementPENNYRILE ALLI…GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC: $23,261 · Community ImprovementGATEWAY COMMUN…NORTHERN KENTUCKY ELECTRICAL ASSOCIATION: $102,272 · OtherNORTHERN …TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $68,656 · OtherTRI-COUNT…Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc: $31,551 · OtherNorthern …+1 more: $5,250 · Other
Human Services$1,027,577Education$1,009,986Community Improvement$321,095Other$207,729

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC: $1,009,986 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $428,099 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST KY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $215,497 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $182,211 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPENNYRILE ALLIED COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $115,623 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $114,188 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $68,656 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetAUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $64,687 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $59,629 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDANIEL BOONE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENC: $49,484 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLICKING VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $34,430 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc: $31,551 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELL-WHITLEY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $24,664 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $23,986 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES ORGANIZATION INC: $23,261 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARLAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC: $12,913 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SANDY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Honorable Order of Ke…Amazonsmile Foundation
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels IncKY15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Wintercare Energy Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wintercare Energy Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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