· Private foundation
Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS NELSON HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY | $6,000 |
| THE GLADYS PROJECT | $6,000 |
| HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY | $5,500 |
| SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SPENCER COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF BOYLE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| NORTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS - CENTRE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF KY | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF NELSON COUNTY | $3,000 |
| KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SHOP WITH A TROOPER | $3,000 |
| BETHANY HAVEN | $3,000 |
| BETHLEHEM HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $9k) 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.
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.
49 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- EMEPHRAIM MCDOWELL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +51%
- WTWEST T HILL COMMUNITY THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +64%
- HHHERITAGE HOSPICE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- BCBOYLE COUNTY SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- KHKENTUCKYONE HEALTH INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -99%
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.
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
The prevention of cruelty to animals through pet adoption, education, and spay/neuter programs within the community of mercer county, kentucky.
To advance healthcare quality and availability in Northern Kentucky for all of its citizens.
Rockcastle hospital is organized to provide medical care to members of its community. the hospital has a policy of accepting all patients within its primary service area regardless of ability to pay. mission: rockcastle hospital and…
The mission of Grace Health is to show the love and share the truth of Jesus Christ to southeastern Kentucky through access to compassionate, high quality primary health care for the whole person.
To engage,educate, and excite everyone about the extraordinary experience that is the kentucky derby!
The organization provides health care to individuals regardless of their ability to pay. this is a direct fulfillment of their tax exempt purpose.
The organization assists in animal control in fiveeastern ky counties
The prevention of cruelty to animals, the promotion of kindness to animals through humane education, with emphasis on neutering and spaying of all animals, and to operate the county animal shelter.
On behalf of our patients, and in support of the vision and mission of chi saint joseph health, we will optimize the health of the commonwealth. we are committed to provider engagement and satisfaction, transparent communication, the…
Community healthcare providing inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services for residents of southeastern kentucky. the organization ceased operations on july 31, 2019.
To provide exclusively for the benefit, aid, relief, and assistance of the racing personnel employed in connection with horse racing who can demonstrate their need for financial assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dream Flight Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 82 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 EPHRAIM MCDOWELL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST T HILL COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT AMERICAN BRASS BAND FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NELSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGET MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYLE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENDYL AND FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds RAGGED EDGE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER SCHOOL OF DRAMA ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER CO FAIR & HORSE SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS TRACE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MERCER AREA FAMILY EDUCATION AND WELLNESS 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: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · 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 Trim Masters Charitable Foundation 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.
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