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UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC
To improve lives by providing support through funding local agenies and performing community growth activities.
$584k
Granted FY2024
16
Grants
1
Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Human Services$458kFood & Nutrition$382kHealth$292kCrime & Legal$292kHousing & Shelter$100kYouth Development$39kOther$916k
02FY2024 · 16 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $364k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $208k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE$100,000
- HARDIN COUNTY SCHOOLS$56,000
- COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC$52,000
- HELPING HAND OF HOPE INC$46,500
- GRAYSON COUNTY ALLIANCE$45,000
- NEW HOPE LIFE MINISRIES$32,500
- ELIZABETHTOWN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS$30,000
- WARM BLESSINGS INC$30,000
- SPRINGHAVEN INC$30,000
- SILVERLEAF SEXUAL TRAUMA RECOVERY S$26,000
- THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
- CASA OF THE HEARTLAND$25,000
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$20,000
- GRAYSON COUNTY MINISTERIAL ASSN$20,000
- MAGNOLIA CUMBERLAND PRESYBTERIAN$20,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 76% 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, 90% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 17 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
8
Total granted
$2.3M
$47k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+60%
Still filing today
65%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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
- GCGRAYSON COUNTY ALLIANCE5× · 2020–2024 · $219k · revenue +29%
- COCASA OF THE HEARTLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $154k · revenue +143%
- BBBIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS5× · 2020–2024 · $152k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- LCLARUE COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $13k
- EFECTC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BCBRECKENRIDGE COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Shelter of Hope Inc
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…
Housing & Shelter
2
Casa of Midwest Kentucky Inc
The mission of the casa program is to provide specially trained and supervised community volunteers to advocate for the abused and neglected children in the hopkins, webster, union, henderson, muhlenberg, and crittenden county's courts,…
Civil Rights
3
House of Hope of Kentucky Inc
To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
Health
4
Casa of the Northern Bluegrass Region Inc
The mission of CASA of the Northern Bluegrass Region is to provide court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes.
Crime & Legal
5
Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky
The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…
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6
Community Action Kentucky Inc
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education and a sustainable home.
Community Improvement
7
Kentucky Casa Network Inc
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.
Philanthropy
8
Baby Health Services Inc
Provide free quality health care for the uninsured children of central kentucky.
Health
9
The Gentry House Inc
The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.
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10
Hope Ministries of Northern
Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.
Human Services
11
Casa of Robertson County Inc
To provide court-appointed special advocates to child victims of abuse and neglect. The programs vision is a safe, permanent, loving home for every child it serves.
Human Services
12
Huntington County Child Advocacy
Provide a safe and compassionate, child focused center to promptly and thoroughly investigate child abuse.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grayson County Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Home of the Innocents Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$915,540Human Services$458,086Food & Nutrition$381,590Health$291,922Crime & Legal$291,619Housing & Shelter$100,000Youth Development$39,162
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 COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON COUNTY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds SILVERLEAF SEXUAL TRAUMA RECOVERY S ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds WARM BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOPE FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds BRECK-GRAYSON PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds HOME OF THE INNOCENTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RED CROSS ↗
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.
Central Kentucky CommunityKY29× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Central Kentucky Community · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Second Sixty Charitable Foundation · Mary Cofer Trigg Tuw Char · Schmidt Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville · The Community Foundation Of · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 300042070 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 63% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to United Way of Central Kentucky Inc?
Find your warmest path to United Way of Central Kentucky Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines