· Private foundation
Virginia Clark Hagan Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $980k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Carnegie Center for Literacy | $235,000 |
| Salvation Army | $165,000 |
| Transylvania University | $150,000 |
| International Book Project | $135,000 |
| Central Music Academy | $95,000 |
| Commonwealth Fund for KET | $75,000 |
| National Christian Foundation | $75,000 |
| Frontier Nursing University | $50,000 |
| Kentucky Historical Society | $25,000 |
| Christian Appalachian Project | $25,000 |
| Henry Clay Center For Statesmanship | $25,000 |
| Central KY Youth Orchestras | $20,000 |
| Lexington Children's Theatre | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TUTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $950k · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $540k · revenue +57% · 33% of their budget
- CFCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC5× · 2021–2025 · $400k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- LCLEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE INCone grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
Private Baptist College
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Georgetown college is a fully accredited liberal arts institution of higher learning located in georgetown, kentucky. the college is committed to providing opportunities for excellence in higher learning under christian influences so as to…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
The mission of cincinnati christian university is to teach men and women to live by biblical principles and to equip and empower them with character, skills, insight, and vision to lead the church and to impact society for christ.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To provide classical education programs to students residing in the greater louisville area.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Foster a liberal arts education that nourishes, stimulates and prepares future leaders intellectually, spiritually and physically to achieve success in life
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Appalachian Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Central Music Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BOOK PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON CHILDREN'S THEATRE 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.
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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 Virginia Clark Hagan Charitable Foundation Inc 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.