Kentucky · Public charity
United Way of Western Kentucky
To focus the caring power of the community to imporve people's lives.
- $494k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $469k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $121,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations United Way of Western Kentucky funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $469k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $497k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $503k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $501k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $490k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $518k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $523k | 7% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $521k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Service Society Inc | $1,006,449 | 8 | 34% |
| Paducah Day Nursery Inc | $502,900 | 8 | 9% |
| Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club Inc | $472,908 | 8 | 18% |
| Women Aware Inc | $376,469 | 8 | 2% |
| Lifeline Recovery Center Inc | $346,222 | 8 | 4% |
| Salvation Army | $285,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc | $263,434 | 8 | 7% |
| Cumberland Trace Legal Services Inc | $182,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral | $158,674 | 8 | 0% |
| Hope Unlimited Family Care Center | $125,300 | 7 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Service Society Inc | $1,006,449 | 8 | 34% |
| Paducah Day Nursery Inc | $502,900 | 8 | 9% |
| Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club Inc | $472,908 | 8 | 18% |
| Women Aware Inc | $376,469 | 8 | 2% |
| Lifeline Recovery Center Inc | $346,222 | 8 | 4% |
| Salvation Army | $285,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc | $263,434 | 8 | 7% |
| Cumberland Trace Legal Services Inc | $182,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral | $158,674 | 8 | 0% |
| Hope Unlimited Family Care Center | $125,300 | 7 | 3% |
| Paducah Interfaith Ministry Inc | $118,011 | 8 | 2% |
| Rape Victim Services Inc | $104,835 | 4 | 2% |
| American Red Cross | $52,461 | 7 | n/a |
| Saint Nicholas Healthcare Payment Assistance Program | $16,128 | 3 | 6% |
| Livwell Community Health Services Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Made to Stay | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Western Kentucky supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of West Kyinc · Charity League Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Wm M & a Cafaro Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Western Kentucky
- How much does United Way of Western Kentucky give?
- United Way of Western Kentucky reported 12 itemized grants totaling $469,200, out of $494,338 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Western Kentucky fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (69%), Youth Development (12%), Crime & Legal (11%).
- Who are United Way of Western Kentucky's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Service Society Inc ($1.0M), Paducah Day Nursery Inc ($503k), Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club Inc ($473k).
- Does United Way of Western Kentucky fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Western Kentucky?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable Trust, Community Foundation of West Kyinc, Charity League Inc.
- Where is United Way of Western Kentucky based?
- United Way of Western Kentucky is based in KY.
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