· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CTCUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +54%
- FEFAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +79%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BOWLING GREEN WARREN COUNTY INC3× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +263% · 44% of their budget
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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…
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Community Agenda for Regained Empowerment ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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