· Public charity
United Way of Western Kentucky
To focus the caring power of the community to imporve people's lives.
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 12 grants below total $469,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $494,338 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,138 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY | $121,000 |
| PADUCAH DAY NURSERY | $64,500 |
| PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC | $53,000 |
| MERRYMAN HOUSE DOMESTIC CRISIS CENTER | $46,400 |
| OSCAR CROSS BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $45,000 |
| CHILD WATCH CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $35,000 |
| KENTUCKY LEGAL AID | $28,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $26,000 |
| PADUCAH-MCCRACKEN COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $16,500 |
| PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY | $14,000 |
| HOPE UNLIMITED CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER | $13,800 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $6,000 |
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, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 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
- FSFAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +357% · 34% of their budget
- PDPADUCAH DAY NURSERY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $503k · revenue +5%
- OCOSCAR CROSS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2025 · $473k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- LCLIVWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +90%
- MTMADE TO STAYone grant, 2022 · $6k
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 provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
Provide free quality health care for the uninsured children of central kentucky.
To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.
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,…
To provide family and individual counseling
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To provide a safe environment for children.
To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds OSCAR CROSS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AWARE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD WATCH COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN KY REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH & MENT DBA FOUR RIVERS BEHAVIORAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT NICHOLAS HEALTHCARE PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LIVWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES 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: 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
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 Western Kentucky 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.