· Public charity
United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc
To be the leader in bringing together the resources to build a stronger, more caring community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $1,035,658 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,390,006 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $354,348 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $735k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER | $167,560 |
| KENTUCKY LEGAL AID INC | $164,095 |
| WARREN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $116,133 |
| BARREN RIVER LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN | $61,911 |
| BARREN RIVER AREA SAFE SPACE INC | $61,150 |
| FOUNDRY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER - FOUNDRY PROGRAM | $57,000 |
| REFUGE BG | $55,000 |
| HOUSING AUTHORITY - WROTE PROGRAM | $51,894 |
| LIFE CHOICE PREGNANCY CENTER | $39,080 |
| RUSSELLVILLE SCHOOLS | $35,670 |
| SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| ALLEN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $26,260 |
| BARREN COUNTY SCHOOLS | $25,060 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH - COMMUNITY GROCERY | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY | $24,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $519k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 29 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 FY2025, 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
- WIWROTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +38% · 39% of their budget
- CTCUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +54%
- FEFAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +79%
Funded once
- LILEE INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -14%
- CECOMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $21k
- AOASSOCIATION OF RESCUE INTERVENTION KENTUCKYone grant, 2017 · $15k
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 advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Provides shelter for the homeless
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…
To end hunger in collaboration with kentucky's feeding america food banks and partners, through advocacy and resource development.
None
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
The shelter of hope's mission is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and permanent housing assistance for individuals and families in need of transitional services leading them to self-sufficiency. provisions are made without…
The mission of the Organization is to provide sustainable, affordable, safe, energy efficient and dry housing to moderate, low and very low income families and individuals of Harlan, Bell and Leslie Counties of Kentucky.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
CAReS provides case management and emergency assistance to Kentucky residents living in Boyd, Carter, and Greenup counties.Emergency assistance includes rent, utilities, medications, baby care items, and emergency food.
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.
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 Western Ky Refugee Mutual Assistance Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mobile Grocery of Bowling Green. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 60 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 WROTE INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BARREN RIVER AREA SAFE SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BOWLING GREEN AREA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds HOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds LOGAN COUNTY GOOD SAMARITAN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARREN RIVER AREA CHILD ADVOCACY CE ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COALFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Western Kentucky University Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME SUPPORT GROUP OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE GROCERY OF BOWLING GREEN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN SIMPSON GOOD SAMARITAN INC ↗
- Who funds GLEAN KENTUCKY 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: Community Foundation of South Central Kentucky Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc · Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Dorothy Kopmeier Vallier Foundation · Berta Family Foundation Inc · The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation · Kentucky Social Welfare 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 Southern Kentucky Inc 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.