· Private foundation
Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS NELSON HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| THE GLADYS PROJECT | $6,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY | $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 |
| NORTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS - CENTRE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MERCER COUNTY COMMUNITY ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF BOYLE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF KY | $4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF NELSON COUNTY | $3,000 |
| BETHANY HAVEN | $3,000 |
| KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SHOP WITH A TROOPER | $3,000 |
| BETHLEHEM HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEPHRAIM MCDOWELL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +58%
- 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
- TETRAILBLAZER EARLY COLLEGE & CAREER ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trim Masters Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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