Kentucky · Public charity
United Way of Central Kentucky Inc
To improve lives by providing support through funding local agenies and performing community growth activities.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations United Way of Central Kentucky Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $400k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $572k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $404k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $343k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $476k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $683k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helping Hand of Hope Inc | $338,795 | 6 | 25% |
| Community Health Clinic Inc | $291,922 | 5 | 63% |
| Grayson County Alliance Inc | $269,349 | 6 | 4% |
| Family Scholar House Inc | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Springhaven Inc | $182,901 | 5 | 3% |
| Hardin County Schools | $181,005 | 5 | n/a |
| Warm Blessings INC | $174,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Casa of the Heartland | $154,239 | 5 | 17% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana Inc | $151,865 | 5 | 3% |
| Elizabethtown High School | $139,420 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helping Hand of Hope Inc | $338,795 | 6 | 25% |
| Community Health Clinic Inc | $291,922 | 5 | 63% |
| Grayson County Alliance Inc | $269,349 | 6 | 4% |
| Family Scholar House Inc | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Springhaven Inc | $182,901 | 5 | 3% |
| Hardin County Schools | $181,005 | 5 | n/a |
| Warm Blessings INC | $174,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Casa of the Heartland | $154,239 | 5 | 17% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana Inc | $151,865 | 5 | 3% |
| Elizabethtown High School | $139,420 | 5 | n/a |
| Silverleaf Sexual Trauma Recovery Services Inc | $137,380 | 5 | 3% |
| The Salvation Army | $132,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Cumberland Presbytery of Cumberland Presbyterian Church Inc | $111,674 | 6 | n/a |
| Grayson County Ministerial Association Inc | $95,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc | $88,241 | 2 | 0% |
| Tri-County Casa Inc | $79,980 | 5 | 16% |
| Mission Hope for Kids Inc | $39,162 | 3 | 6% |
| Grayson County Board of Education | $16,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Larue County Board of Education | $13,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Breckinridge County Board of Education | $6,996 | 1 | n/a |
| Breckinridge-Grayson Programs Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cloverport Independent Schools | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $390 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($63k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Central Kentucky Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About United Way of Central Kentucky Inc
- How much does United Way of Central Kentucky Inc give?
- United Way of Central Kentucky Inc reported 8 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Central Kentucky Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are United Way of Central Kentucky Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Helping Hand of Hope Inc ($339k), Community Health Clinic Inc ($292k), Grayson County Alliance Inc ($269k).
- Does United Way of Central Kentucky Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Central Kentucky Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Kentucky Community Foundation Inc, The Whas Crusade for Children Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc.
- Where is United Way of Central Kentucky Inc based?
- United Way of Central Kentucky Inc is based in KY.
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