Kentucky · Nonprofit
BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC
BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,407 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES AND MARY HEIDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($257,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $490k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $521k
What Blue Grass Farms Charities Inc does
Mission
To maintain a comprehensive enrichment center with assistance to persons working in central kentucky's thoroughbred industry. Includes counseling, housing and utility assistance, food and clothing, medical and dental, referral sources & bereavement aid. The charity also conducts free health and dental screenings for low-wage earners and their immediate families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The charity addresses the issues of hunger, homelessness, health care and clothing for equine workers and their families. The "tack room" program stocks food, household and hygiene supplies, season appropriate clothing, and offers emergency financial aid for utilities, gas, housing, and medical care. The charity also delivers on a weekly basis free fresh fruits and perishable foods directly to the farm workers. Health clinics are offered on a rotating basis.
$130,245 spentof which $36,929 as grants$170,769 earned by the program53% of program spendingThe christmas holiday celebration is an annual event that makes sure every farm worker child can experience the joy of receiving during the christmas holiday. The holiday celebration provides not only a place where farm worker families from different locations, farms and training centers come together to share a hot holiday meal, but it is also fulfillment of a happy christmas for children, with visits with santa claus, as well as new toys and special gifts for every child.
$70,313 spentof which $51,650 as grants$149,679 earned by the program29% of program spendingThe charity provides back-to-school backpacks stuffed with school supplies for farm worker family children in grades k-5. Volunteers deliver the backpacks for the worker children to the individual farms, and each year the number of backpacks has grown.
$46,034 spentof which $33,592 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $246,592.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $370k to $521k (+41%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
79% of BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $50k → $172k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 36% · 2019 65% · 2020 20% · 2021 27% · 2022 32% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $394k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,843 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,843 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC?
- BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,119,407 to it, the largest being THE CHARLES AND MARY HEIDER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($257,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,119,407 in grants to BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC?
- THE CHARLES AND MARY HEIDER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $257,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing