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United Way of Western Kentucky

To focus the caring power of the community to imporve people's lives.

$494k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$121k
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$2.8MYouth Development$473kCrime & Legal$446kHealth$289kPublic Safety & Disaster$52k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $469,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $494,338 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,138 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $239k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $18k → 15%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $16k → 15%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $15k → 15%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $14k → 15%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $14k → 15%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $14k → 15%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $14k → 15%PADUCAH COOOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $13k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $134k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $131k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $128k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $128k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $124k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $121k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $121k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY: $121k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $70k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $65k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $65k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $62k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $62k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $61k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $60k → 15%PADUCAH DAY NURSERY: $60k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $55k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $53k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $51k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $22k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $16k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $11k → 15%PADUCAH LIFELINE MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 14 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$4.0M
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+90%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +357% · 34% of their budget
  • PD
    PADUCAH DAY NURSERY INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $503k · revenue +5%
  • OC
    OSCAR CROSS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $473k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LC
    LIVWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +90%
  • MT
    MADE TO STAY
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
2
Baby Health Services Inc

Provide free quality health care for the uninsured children of central kentucky.

Health
3
Healthpoint Family Care Inc

To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.

Health
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
Family Service Inc

To provide family and individual counseling

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6
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
7
Westcare Tennessee Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
8
Kentucky Intensive Family Services Inc

To provide a safe environment for children.

—
9
Life Crisis Center Inc

To improve the quality of life in our community through crisis intervention and violence prevention.

Human Services
10
Louisville Central Community Centerinc

Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.

Recreation & Sports
11
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

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

—
12
Blue Grass Community Action Partnership Inc

Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $1,006,449 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INCPADUCAH DAY NURSERY INC: $502,900 · Human ServicesPADUCAH DAY NURSERY INCLIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $346,222 · Human ServicesLIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INCPADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INC: $118,011 · Human ServicesPADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INCWOMEN AWARE INC: $376,469 · OtherWOMEN AWARE INCSALVATION ARMY: $285,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYRAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC: $104,835 · OtherRAPE VICTIM SERVICES IN…AMERICAN RED CROSS: $52,461 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS+2 more: $21,628 · OtherOSCAR CROSS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $472,908 · Youth DevelopmentOSCAR CROSS B…CHILD WATCH COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $263,434 · Crime & LegalCHILD WATCH …CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $182,500 · Crime & LegalCUMBERLAND T…WESTERN KY REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH & MENT DBA FOUR RIVERS BEHAVIORAL: $158,674 · HealthHOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER: $125,300 · Health+1 more: $5,500 · Health
Human Services$1,973,582Other$840,393Youth Development$472,908Crime & Legal$445,934Health$289,474

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICE SOCIETY INC: $1,006,449 over 8y, 34% of budgetPADUCAH DAY NURSERY INC: $502,900 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetOSCAR CROSS BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $472,908 over 8y, 18% of budgetWOMEN AWARE INC: $376,469 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetLIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $346,222 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCHILD WATCH COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $263,434 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $182,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN KY REGIONAL MENTAL HEALTH & MENT DBA FOUR RIVERS BEHAVIORAL: $158,674 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE UNLIMITED FAMILY CARE CENTER: $125,300 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetPADUCAH INTERFAITH MINISTRY INC: $118,011 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetRAPE VICTIM SERVICES INC: $104,835 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSAINT NICHOLAS HEALTHCARE PAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $16,128 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetLIVWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

Ray & Kay Eckstein Ch…Community Foundation …Charity League IncHonorable Order of Ke…The Wm M & a Cafaro F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Carson-Myre Charitabl…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ray & Kay Eckstein Charitable TrustKY26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Western Kentucky funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Western Kentucky. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 16 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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