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Kentucky · Public charity

United Way of Northeast Kentucky

Solicit Funds for Charitable and Civic Work

$338k
Granted FY2023
30
Grants FY2023
30
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 30
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations United Way of Northeast Kentucky funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202330$338k67%
FY202210$225k0%
FY202114$416k0%
FY202016$501k13%
FY201916$550k19%
FY201816$413k13%
FY201715$359kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Housing & Shelter$694kHuman Services$686kFood & Nutrition$452kPhilanthropy$394kPublic Safety & Disaster$214kCrime & Legal$154kEducation$81kYouth Development$48kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Northeast Kentucky$418,834611%
Casa of Northeast Kentucky Inc$399,750853%
Ashland Community Kitchen Inc$321,500815%
Safe Harbor of Northeast Ky Inc$276,25083%
The Salvation Army$267,2508n/a
River Cities Harvest Inc$123,75082%
Shelter of Hope Inc$122,08387%
Hope's Place Inc$107,05063%
Hillcrest Bruce United Methodist Ministries Inc$92,7505n/a
United Way of the River Cities Inc$91,96736%
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All grantees of United Way of Northeast Kentucky by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Northeast Kentucky$418,834611%
Casa of Northeast Kentucky Inc$399,750853%
Ashland Community Kitchen Inc$321,500815%
Safe Harbor of Northeast Ky Inc$276,25083%
The Salvation Army$267,2508n/a
River Cities Harvest Inc$123,75082%
Shelter of Hope Inc$122,08387%
Hope's Place Inc$107,05063%
Hillcrest Bruce United Methodist Ministries Inc$92,7505n/a
United Way of the River Cities Inc$91,96736%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$77,00040%
Ashland Area Young Men's Christian Assoc$69,50041%
Boyd County Council on Aging Inc$64,000533%
Federated Charities$63,0007n/a
Community Assistance Referral Service Inc$50,000225%
Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc$47,099516%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri State Inc$30,30042%
Red Cross Northeast$26,0002n/a
Helping Hands of Greenup Inc$15,00029%
Ashland Senior Community Centerinc$12,50025%
Young Mens Christian Assoc Ashland$10,00020%
Two Hearts Pregnancy Care Center$9,01333%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America$8,25020%
Westwood Boys Club Incorporated$7,5001n/a
Kentucky Educational Dev Corp$6,00010%
Partners in Pride Inc$2,7502n/a
Helping Hands Society of Los Angeles$2,5002n/a

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of Northeast Kentucky supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Northeast Kentucky: $418,834 over 6y, 11% of budgetCasa of Northeast Kentucky Inc: $399,750 over 8y, 53% of budgetAshland Community Kitchen Inc: $321,500 over 8y, 15% of budgetSafe Harbor of Northeast Ky Inc: $276,250 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetRiver Cities Harvest Inc: $123,750 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetShelter of Hope Inc: $122,083 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetHope's Place Inc: $107,050 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetUnited Way of the River Cities Inc: $91,967 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $77,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAshland Area Young Men's Christian Assoc: $69,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBoyd County Council on Aging Inc: $64,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetCommunity Assistance Referral Service Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetNeighbors Helping Neighbors Inc: $47,099 over 5y, 16% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri State Inc: $30,300 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHelping Hands of Greenup Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetAshland Senior Community Centerinc: $12,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Assoc Ashland: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTwo Hearts Pregnancy Care Center: $9,013 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $8,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Educational Dev Corp: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Foundation for the Tr…Pallottine Foundation…Marathon Petroleum Fo…Peoples Bank Foundati…Honorable Order of Ke…American Electric Pow…Beulah M Field Memori…Lowman Family Foundat…Ashland Hospital Corp…Blue Grass Community …Nisource Charitable F…Baird Foundation Inc
Foundation for the Tri-State Community IncKY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Tri-State Community Inc · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · Marathon Petroleum Foundation Inc · Peoples Bank Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Beulah M Field Memorial T U W D July 3 1986 · Lowman Family Foundation Inc · Ashland Hospital Corporation · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About United Way of Northeast Kentucky

How much does United Way of Northeast Kentucky give?
United Way of Northeast Kentucky reported 30 grants totaling $337,733 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Way of Northeast Kentucky fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (25%), Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
Who are United Way of Northeast Kentucky's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: United Way of Northeast Kentucky ($419k), Casa of Northeast Kentucky Inc ($400k), Ashland Community Kitchen Inc ($322k).
Does United Way of Northeast Kentucky fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Northeast Kentucky?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Tri-State Community Inc, Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia, Marathon Petroleum Foundation Inc.
Where is United Way of Northeast Kentucky based?
United Way of Northeast Kentucky is based in KY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $234k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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