· Public charity
United Way of Central Kentucky Inc
To improve lives by providing support through funding local agenies and performing community growth activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARM BLESSINGS INC | $100,000 |
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE | $100,000 |
| HELPING HAND OF HOPE INC | $71,000 |
| GRAYSON COUNTY ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| MAGNOLIA CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN | $20,000 |
| GRAYSON COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSN | $15,000 |
| NEW HOPE LIFE MINISRIES | $14,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 75% of United Way of Central Kentucky Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 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
- HHHELPING HAND OF HOPE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $339k · revenue +120% · 25% of their budget
- FSFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +303%
- SISPRINGHAVEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- LCLARUE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $13k
- EFECTC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BCBRECKINRIDGE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $7k
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.
To provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in the hopkins, webster, henderson, union, muhlenberg, and crittenden county's courts, in schools, and in the community.
The shelter of hope's mission is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and permanent housing assistance for individuals and families in need of transitional services leading them to self-sufficiency. provisions are made without…
Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.
Provide free quality health care for the uninsured children of central kentucky.
To end hunger in collaboration with kentucky's feeding america food banks and partners, through advocacy and resource development.
Our mission is to eliminate family violence, stalking, child abuse, and sexual assault through advocacy, education, counseling, support and prevention services.
Volunteers in action seeking safety and permanency for our community's youngest victims. casa provides support, advocacy, and intervention for abused, neglected, and dependent children in south central ky's family court system.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
The mission of the kentucky casa network is to strengthen and support local casa programs in kentucky, that work to advocate for children in the court system due to abuse, neglect or dependency.
The mission of haven house family services center is to eliminate violence against women, men, and children through empowerment, education, social action, and support services
Helps children and their families overcome homelessness by providing case management along with shelter and meals as coordinated with area churches and volunteers.
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home of the Innocents Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breckinridge-Grayson Programs Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 HELPING HAND OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Warm Blessings INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SILVERLEAF SEXUAL TRAUMA RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOPE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Breckinridge-Grayson Programs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Central Kentucky Community Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Second Sixty Charitable Foundation Inc · Mary Cofer Trigg Tuw Char · Dow Company Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · 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 United Way of Central Kentucky 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.