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United Way of the Bluegrass Inc

United way of the bluegrass (uwbg) fights for the education, financial stability, health, and basic needs of every person in central kentucky for over 100 years.

$768k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$3.9MYouth Development$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.3MHealth$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.2MPhilanthropy$760kEducation$615kCrime & Legal$436kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $664,007, the rows itemized in this filing. The $768,070 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $104,063 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $422k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $127k
$11,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRO DE SAN JUAN DIEGO$77,000
URBAN LEAGUE$50,000
YMCA OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY$30,000
ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES FORMERLY MASH$29,000
THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER$24,000
GATHERING PLACE MISSION$22,000
CAPITAL CITY ACTIVITY CENTER$20,500
GREENHOUSE17 (FORMERLY BLUEGRASS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM)$20,000
SIMON HOUSE$19,600
HOPE CENTER INC$19,000
FAITH FEEDS OF KENTUCKY INC DBA GLEANKY$18,900
DOVES OF GATEWAY INC$18,000
THORN HILL EDUCATION CENTER$17,500
AMERICAN RED CROSS BLUEGRASS CHAPTER$16,000
THE NEST - CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$15,000
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 (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PARIS-BOURBON COUNTY YMCA: $150k → 17%BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $37k → 14%ToyotaGB Born Learning: $33k → 15%PARIS-BOURBON COUNTY YMCA: $150k → 17%BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $30k → 14%PARIS-BOURBON COUNTY YMCA: $119k → 17%Capital City Activity Center: $28k → 14%Telford YMCA: $24k → 16%Telford YMCA: $22k → 16%CAPITAL CITY ACTIVITY CENTER: $23k → 14%CAPITAL CITY ACTIVITY CENTER: $23k → 14%CAPITAL CITY ACTIVITY CENTER: $23k → 14%CAPITAL CITY ACTIVITY CENTER: $21k → 14%Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass: $50k → 15%Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass: $47k → 15%Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass: $45k → 15%Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass: $36k → 15%Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass: $33k → 15%Child Care Council Of Kentucky Inc: $90k → 15%Child Care Council Of Kentucky Inc: $75k → 15%Child Care Council Of Kentucky Inc: $68k → 15%Child Care Council Of Kentucky Inc: $59k → 15%CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY INC: $58k → 15%Child Care Council Of Kentucky Inc: $53k → 15%CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY INC: $38k → 15%CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY INC: $23k → 15%Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County: $132k → 15%Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County: $99k → 15%Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County: $99k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $97k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $97k → 15%Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County: $80k → 15%Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County: $80k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $70k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 15%Assets for Independence: $231k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES FORMERLY MASH: $38k → 15%Arbor Youth Services formerly MASH: $35k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES FORMERLY MASH: $33k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $32k → 15%Arbor Youth Services formerly MASH: $30k → 15%Arbor Youth Services formerly MASH: $30k → 15%COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $30k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES FORMERLY MASH: $30k → 15%ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES FORMERLY MASH: $29k → 15%Arbor Youth Services formerly MASH: $24k → 15%Arbor Youth Services formerly MASH: $24k → 15%KDVA Grant: $21k → 15%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 78 repeat orgs$530k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
27

Total granted

$11M
$488k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+7%

Still filing today

82%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $805k · revenue +13%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $667k · revenue +50%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PARIS BOURBON COUNTY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $476k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $189k · revenue -86%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY REGIONAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
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
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
2
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
3
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.

Crime & Legal
4
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
5
Community Assistance Referral Service Inc

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.

Employment
6
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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7
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
8
Crisis Center of Russell County

The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center Inc

Provide a coordinated response to concerns of child abuse in a child-focused environment, offering prevention, evaluation and treatment to children and families.

Health
10
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
11
Robertson County Child Advocacy Cen

Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.

Crime & Legal
12
The Gentry House Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center Inc D/B/a Ampersand Sexual Violence Resource; the most unlike its peers is Lawrence & Augusta Hager Educational Foundation 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

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 111 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/88
Grantees still filing
66/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $804,725 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUN…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PARIS BOURBON COUNTY INC: $475,674 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PA…CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY INC: $475,029 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY INCBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $410,797 · Human ServicesBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHI…GREENHOUSE17 INC: $382,255 · Human ServicesGREENHOUSE17 INCUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $297,420 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INCARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $272,558 · Human ServicesARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INCCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $211,856 · Human Services+13 more: $687,812 · Human Services+13 moreTHE SALVATION ARMY: $707,371 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $666,516 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER…LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $287,613 · OtherLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA TH…American Red Cross Bluegrass Chapter: $232,827 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC: $179,553 · OtherAMEN HOUSE INC: $175,001 · Other+49 more: $2,413,057 · Other+49 moreBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $286,482 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRAS…Ministerial Association of Woodford County Inc: $241,783 · PhilanthropyMinisteri…CENTRO DE SAN JUAN DIEGO FOUNDATION INC FKA DOUGLAS&BENNETT FAMILY FDN: $231,000 · PhilanthropyCENTRO DE…UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $188,959 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC: $67,354 · PhilanthropyREPAIRERS…CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $304,378 · Crime & LegalOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $138,562 · Crime & LegalCASA AT WOODLAWN INC: $84,787 · Crime & LegalDOMESTIC VIOLENCE EMERGENCY SE DOVES OF GATEWAY: $78,200 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $20,806 · Crime & LegalNURSING HOME OMBUDSMAN AGENCY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $233,705 · HealthAVOL KENTUCKY INC: $101,756 · HealthCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $93,143 · HealthPOST CLINIC INC: $45,800 · HealthSHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $42,752 · HealthMISSION LEXINGTON INC: $38,200 · Health+6 more: $66,701 · HealthTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $250,606 · Housing & ShelterCLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $76,100 · Housing & ShelterGREEN RIVER ASSET BUILDING COALITION INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $36,200 · Housing & ShelterSCOTT COUNTY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterFRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterGROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC: $209,903 · EducationTHORNHILL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $87,875 · EducationCOMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC: $78,272 · Education+3 more: $19,499 · Education
Human Services$4,018,126Other$4,661,938Philanthropy$1,015,578Crime & Legal$626,733Health$622,057Housing & Shelter$455,906Education$395,549

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 budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY: $804,725 over 9y, 16% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY: $666,516 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PARIS BOURBON COUNTY INC: $475,674 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetCHILD CARE COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY INC: $475,029 over 9y, 21% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $410,797 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGREENHOUSE17 INC: $382,255 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $304,378 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $297,420 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $287,613 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $286,482 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC: $272,558 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $250,606 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMinisterial Association of Woodford County Inc: $241,783 over 7y, 52% of budgetNURSING HOME OMBUDSMAN AGENCY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $233,705 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetCENTRO DE SAN JUAN DIEGO FOUNDATION INC FKA DOUGLAS&BENNETT FAMILY FDN: $231,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $211,856 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC: $209,903 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC: $188,959 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC: $179,553 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetAMEN HOUSE INC: $175,001 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetJUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC: $148,491 over 9y, 9.0% of budgetOFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC: $138,562 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetBLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC: $134,749 over 9y, 13% of budgetCLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN: $129,997 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $125,979 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetKENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $125,515 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGLEAN KENTUCKY INC: $122,400 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #204 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL: $120,431 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $118,474 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $116,092 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE MIDWEST INC: $112,400 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetSIMON HOUSE INC: $106,100 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA: $103,440 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetAVOL KENTUCKY INC: $101,756 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC: $93,143 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHORNHILL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $87,875 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCASA AT WOODLAWN INC: $84,787 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE MISSION INC: $81,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY BOUR HARR AND NICH COUNTIES INC: $78,272 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE EMERGENCY SE DOVES OF GATEWAY: $78,200 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWOODFORD COUNTY THEATRICAL ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $76,352 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCLARK COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $76,100 over 5y, 11% of budgetACCUTRAN INC: $69,223 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetREPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC: $67,354 over 6y, 30% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $62,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE CENTER INC: $57,931 over 3y, 11% of budgetCLARK COUNTY CHILDREN'S COUNCIL INC: $54,790 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetGREEN RIVER ASSET BUILDING COALITION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 24% 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 URBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTON-FAYETTE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF PARIS BOURBON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENHOUSE17 INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Ministerial Association of Woodford County Inc ↗
  • Who funds NURSING HOME OMBUDSMAN AGENCY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO DE SAN JUAN DIEGO FOUNDATION INC FKA DOUGLAS&BENNETT FAMILY FDN ↗
  • Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWING TOGETHER PRESCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKY'S WILDERNESS ROAD COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMEN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUEGRASS COUNCIL OF THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN ↗
  • Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY RIVER FOOTHILLS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #204 BLUEGRASS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE MIDWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds TELFORD COMMUNITY CENTER YMCA ↗
  • Who funds AVOL KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THORNHILL EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗

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.

Blue Grass Community …Honorable Order of Ke…American Water Charit…Roaring Brook Foundat…The King's Daughters …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Keeneland Foundation …The Whas Crusade for …Nisource Charitable F…The Community Foundat…Ee Murry Family Found…Heart of Kentucky Uni…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY111.7× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Roaring Brook Foundation Inc · The King's Daughters and Sons Foundation of Kentucky Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Ee Murry Family Foundation · Heart of Kentucky United Way 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 the Bluegrass Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Bluegrass Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 111 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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