· Private foundation
Whitaker 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $745k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION INC | $205,000 |
| LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $115,000 |
| MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY | $90,000 |
| HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC | $70,000 |
| STAMPING GROUND CHURCH OF GOD | $65,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $25,000 |
| DV8 KITCHEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| MAPLE ST CHURCH OF GOD | $20,000 |
| BEREA BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| GALILEAN CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| ELKHORN CITY FIRST CHURCH OF GOD | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $10,000 |
| AMEN HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 97% 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 +65% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 3 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, 98% 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
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +152%
- LRLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +213%
- LKLEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $800k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- BCBLUEGRASS COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEone grant, 2018 · $50k
- HCHAZARD COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $45k
- CACHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $28k · revenue +6%
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.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual. christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living, 24-hour skilled nursing…
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
The mission of chrysalis house inc. is to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance use disorders.
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
Using the ministry of jesus christ as our model, blc provides quality of life options to assist adults 55+ to remain active by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Financial and operational management of nursing facilities, assisted-living facilities, and retirement apartments. the organization has 172 nursing beds, 49 assisted-living apartments and 74 personal care beds.
A non-profit senior living community dedicated to providing quality housing, rehabilitative services and long-term nursing care reflecting christian compassion for everyone.
As an interdenominational christian community retirement and care facility, the episcopal church home is dedicated to providing a full range of high-quality resident services from long term alzheimer's/memory care to short term…
To provide homes and healing for orphan children and displaced single parent families.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Appalachian Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bettys Brave & Beautiful Hearts 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 76 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 ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LEXINGTON KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LOTTS CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds DV8 KITCHEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOUNDATI ON INC ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG CREEK MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOARING EAGLE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Saint Joseph Health System Inc
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 Whitaker 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.