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Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
28%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 35
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$85k7%
FY202429$90k28%
FY202330$79k20%
FY202226$68k15%
FY202123$75k9%
FY202030$72k10%
FY201935$77k26%
FY201833$80k45%
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$117kArts & Culture$94kPhilanthropy$91kEducation$76kRecreation & Sports$69kHousing & Shelter$62kYouth Development$54kHuman Services$45kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ephraim McDowell Health Care Foundation Inc$48,00081%
Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc$34,40091%
Sunrise Children's Services Inc$30,65680%
West T Hill Community Theatre Inc$19,50096%
Heritage Hospice Inc$16,60050%
The Gladys Project Inc$16,0006n/a
Distinguished Young Women of Boyle County$15,0003n/a
Great American Brass Band Festival Inc$13,50092%
Nelson County Community Clinic Inc$13,00044%
Flaget Memorial Hospital Foundation$12,60040%
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All grantees of Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ephraim McDowell Health Care Foundation Inc$48,00081%
Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc$34,40091%
Sunrise Children's Services Inc$30,65680%
West T Hill Community Theatre Inc$19,50096%
Heritage Hospice Inc$16,60050%
The Gladys Project Inc$16,0006n/a
Distinguished Young Women of Boyle County$15,0003n/a
Great American Brass Band Festival Inc$13,50092%
Nelson County Community Clinic Inc$13,00044%
Flaget Memorial Hospital Foundation$12,60040%
Boyle County Education Foundation Inc$10,000231%
Kendyl and Friends Foundation Inc$9,25051%
Grace Cafe Inc$9,00041%
Ragged Edge Community Theatre Inc$8,50072%
Pioneer School of Drama$7,70071%
Bethlehem High School$7,5005n/a
Art Center of the Bluegrass Inc$7,50050%
Mercer Co Fair & Horse Show Inc$7,50031%
Buttermilk Days Foundation$5,5003n/a
Wilderness Trace Child Development Cente Corporation$5,50021%
Mercer Area Family Education and Wellness Inc$4,50051%
Bethany Haven Inc$3,30021%
American Cancer Society Inc$3,00020%
Danville-Boyle County Humane Society$3,00030%
Kentuckyone Health Inc$3,00010%
Dream Flight Charities Inc$2,50019%
Humane Society of Nelson County Inc$2,0001n/a
The Harrodsburg Historical Society$2,00014%
Haven Care Center Inc$1,80020%
St Joseph Church$1,8001n/a
Heart of Danville Inc$1,00011%
Commonwealth of Kentucky$1,0001n/a
Kidney Health Alliance of Kentucky Inc$50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($380k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEphraim McDowell Health Care Foundation Inc: $48,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHeart of Kentucky United Way Inc: $34,400 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSunrise Children's Services Inc: $30,656 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWest T Hill Community Theatre Inc: $19,500 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetHeritage Hospice Inc: $16,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGreat American Brass Band Festival Inc: $13,500 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetNelson County Community Clinic Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFlaget Memorial Hospital Foundation: $12,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBoyle County Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetKendyl and Friends Foundation Inc: $9,250 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGrace Cafe Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRagged Edge Community Theatre Inc: $8,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPioneer School of Drama: $7,700 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetArt Center of the Bluegrass Inc: $7,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMercer Co Fair & Horse Show Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWilderness Trace Child Development Cente Corporation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMercer Area Family Education and Wellness Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBethany Haven Inc: $3,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDanville-Boyle County Humane Society: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKentuckyone Health Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDream Flight Charities Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetThe Harrodsburg Historical Society: $2,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHaven Care Center Inc: $1,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHeart of Danville Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKidney Health Alliance of Kentucky Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 Kentucky Colonels IncKY27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $84,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Arts & Culture (13%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ephraim McDowell Health Care Foundation Inc ($48k), Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc ($34k), Sunrise Children's Services Inc ($31k).
Does Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc, Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Powell Family Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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 82 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-PF 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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