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United Way of Northeast Kentucky

Solicit Funds for Charitable and Civic Work

$338k
Granted FY2023
30
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k20 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $213k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$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
Greenup Co School District$5,000
Neighbors Helping Neighbors$5,000
Federated Charities$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%HELPING HANDS: $8k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $8k → 16%RED CROSS NORTHEAST: $35k → 18%HOPES PLACE: $23k → 18%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS: $23k → 18%HOPES PLACE: $20k → 18%HOPES PLACE: $20k → 18%RED CROSS NORTHEAST: $18k → 18%HOPES PLACE: $18k → 18%HOPES PLACE: $15k → 18%RED CROSS NORTHEAST: $15k → 18%HOPES PLACE: $11k → 18%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS: $10k → 18%NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS: $10k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 19 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
3

Total granted

$2.6M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+96%

Still filing today

74%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $322k · revenue +6%
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $276k · revenue +48%
  • SO
    SHELTER OF HOPE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • HB
    HILLCREST BRUCE MISSIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • WB
    WESTWOOD BOYS CLUB INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • KE
    KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL DEV CORPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +96%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
House of Hope of Kentucky Inc

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…

Health
2
Build Ashland Inc

To provide community support for activities and improvements in ashland ky

Community Improvement
3
Hope Ministries of Northern Kentucky Inc

Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.

Human Services
4
Housing Partners of Ashland County Inc

Assisting ashland county residents in need of secure, safe, affordable housing through rentals, renovations, and/or new homes.

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5
Christs Hands Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
Baby Health Services Inc

Provide free quality health care for the uninsured children of central kentucky.

Health
7
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
8
Helping Hand of Hope Inc

To provide temporary emergency assistance including food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical and other assistance to individuals in the hardin county, kentucky area.

Human Services
9
Blue Grass Community Action Partnership Inc

Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.

Human Services
10
Kentucky Senior Citizens Apartments Inc

Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.

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11
Kentucky Rural Health Collaborative Inc

To provide relief for flood victims in eastern kentucky.

Health
12
Emergency Shelter of Northern Ky Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ashland Senior Community Centerinc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY INC: $399,750 · OtherCASA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY INCASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC: $321,500 · OtherASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INCSAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KY INC: $276,250 · OtherSAFE HARBOR OF NORTHEAST KY INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $267,250 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYHILLCREST BRUCE UNITED METHODIST MINISTRIES INC: $92,750 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE RIVER CITIES INC: $91,967 · OtherASHLAND AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $69,500 · OtherBOYD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $64,000 · OtherFEDERATED CHARITIES: $63,000 · Other+23 more: $173,800 · Other+23 moreUnited Way of Northeast Kentucky: $418,834 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of No…HOPE'S PLACE INC: $107,050 · Human ServicesHOPE'S PL…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $77,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc: $47,099 · Human ServicesNeighbors…HELPING HANDS OF GREENUP INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHELPING H…RIVER CITIES HARVEST INC: $123,750 · Community ImprovementASHLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementSHELTER OF HOPE INC: $122,083 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Assistance Referral Service Inc: $50,000 · EmploymentTWO HEARTS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $9,013 · Health
Other$1,819,767Philanthropy$418,834Human Services$246,149Community Improvement$136,250Housing & Shelter$122,083Employment$50,000Health$9,013

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Northeast Kentucky funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Northeast Kentucky. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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