· Public charity
United Way of Nelson County
fundraising organization for other 501c3 human and health service agencies serving Marion, Nelson and Washingon Counties in Kentucky
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $141,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $198,834 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,434 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Caring Place | $30,000 |
| Community Action of Nelson County | $18,500 |
| Bread for Life Food Pantry | $15,000 |
| Nelcasa | $14,000 |
| Nelson County Community Clinic | $13,000 |
| Bardstown Back Pack Program | $12,000 |
| Bethany Haven | $12,000 |
| New Hope Food Bank | $7,000 |
| Springhaven Domestic Violence | $7,000 |
| Community Action of Central KY | $6,500 |
| Central Kentucky Head Start | $6,400 |
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 (FY17–18, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +151% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2018, 0 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 FY2018, 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
- ACABC Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $37k · revenue +154%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +155%
- NINELCASA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $27k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- NLNEW LIFE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +0%
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.
New Beginnings offers pregnancy testing, limited ultrasound referrals, helps women bring their babies to term and become responsible, loving mothers.
This center brings victims of domestic violence and sexual assault together to provide a safe and nurturing place to learn and grow through crisis and case management, court advocacy, support groups and 24 hour crisis hotline.
Promote safety, self-sufficiency, hope and healing to those effected by abuse.
The organization operates numerous programs that aid children and low income or aged adults.
To aid victims of domestic violence
Counseling and assistance for unplanned pregnancy.
Child abuse victim assistance
The mission of new choices, inc. is to provide shelby county, ohio with the immediate care needs for individuals of domestic violence.
To provide safe shelter, advocacy, counseling, referrals and support to all victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Provide shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for battered women and their children.
As an advocate for women and children of domestic violence and sexual assault, safe haven inc. strives to provide emergency shelter and crisis intervention in a loving, caring and secure environment that will uphold their dignity and…
Crisis Pregnancy Center
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nelcasa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Caring Place a Center for Abused Women and Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 THE CARING PLACE A CENTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ABC Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds NELCASA INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NELSON COUNTY COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE CENTER 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.
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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 Nelson 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.
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