· Public charity
United Way of Northeast Kentucky
Solicit Funds for Charitable and Civic Work
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k20 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARES | $50,000 |
| Safe Harbor | $42,500 |
| Hillcrest Bruce Missions | $40,000 |
| Salvation Army | $30,000 |
| Ashland Community Kitchen | $25,000 |
| Childwatch CASA | $20,000 |
| Red Cross | $18,000 |
| River Cities Harvest | $15,000 |
| Ashland Senior center | $12,500 |
| YMCA | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $8,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Neighbors Helping Neighbors | $5,000 |
| Federated Charities | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 94% 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.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- ACASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $322k · revenue +6%
- SHSAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +48%
- SOSHELTER OF HOPE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- HBHILLCREST BRUCE MISSIONSone grant, 2019 · $18k
- WBWESTWOOD BOYS CLUB INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $8k
- KEKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +96%
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.
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…
Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.
To provide community support for activities and improvements in ashland ky
Provide free quality health care for the uninsured children of central kentucky.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.
To provide emergency shelter which is life saving and transitional housing for those seeking to end homelessness. ESNKY is open to those who are homeless, stranded or without utilities. Seeking to provide a safe, secure environment…
Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.
Organization operates a kitchen providing daily meals and housing opportunities serving harlan county and surrounding area. food boxes and personal items are also provided on a periodic basis.
To provide relief for flood victims in eastern kentucky.
The organization operates numerous programs that aid children and low income or aged adults.
To provide temporary emergency assistance including food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical and other assistance to individuals in the hardin county, kentucky area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Northeast Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Safe Harbor of Northeast Ky Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 42 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 United Way of Northeast Kentucky ↗
- Who funds CASA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITIES HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC ↗
- Who funds BOYD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Community Assistance Referral Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Tri State Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GREENUP INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC ASHLAND ↗
- Who funds TWO HEARTS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORP ↗
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: 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
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 Northeast Kentucky 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
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.