· Public charity
United Way of Franklin County
Our mission is to focus on the power of giving by promoting volunteerism and mobilizing financial resources to eliminate the countys compelling human service needs
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salvation Army | $28,727 |
| Various Organiza | $22,682 |
| Senior Citizens | $18,355 |
| Sunshine Center | $17,059 |
| Simon House | $13,800 |
| Soup Kitchen | $13,673 |
| The King Center | $13,465 |
| YMCA | $12,300 |
| Emergency Food P | $9,279 |
| Thornhill Learni | $9,225 |
| American Red Cro | $7,650 |
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 (FY17–20, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 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
- FCFRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC4× · 2017–2020 · $101k · revenue +16%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $77k · revenue +24%
- SHSIMON HOUSE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $75k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- VOVarious Orgone grant, 2017 · $47k
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.
Working in partnership with community to alleviate hunger in franklin county.
We provide food (free of charge) to our community neighbors (jessamine co. ky) who are in need.
Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.
The fayette county commission on aging serves and represents those adults 60 years of age and older in fayette county. the emphasis is on improving the quality of life of those fayette county citizens, 60 and above, and providing the…
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.
Provide services & meals to the elderly.
The Anderson County Community Action Commission provides food, clothing, household foods, and essential assistance to low-income residents of Anderson County, Tennessee. The organization operates a community food pantry, clothing closet,…
A group comprised of individuals, church groups, civic organizations, and city and county officials joining together their efforts to provide Pulaski County residents food in emergency situations.
The organization provides a transitional home for men to live in a safe environment while connecting them with the resources for substance abuse,mental and physical health. we assist them with legal matters and help themfind sustainable…
To provide services to crawford county citizens
To provide a child food program for childcare providers and nutrition program for the elderly
To encourage development and full utilization of community resources to build and sustain a comprehensive mental health system of care for children and families in Franklin County, MO.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frankfort Area Children's Council and the most unlike its peers is Emergency Community Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FRANKFORT KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKFORT AREA CHILDREN'S COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION OF COMMITTED CHRISTIANS INC ↗
- Who funds THORNHILL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Emergency Community Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
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: United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community 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 Franklin County 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.