· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 76 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Whitaker Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Whitaker Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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