Kentucky · Nonprofit
FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT
FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,862 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,652). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $452k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $123k
- Net assets
- $831k
What Franklin County Women and Family Shelter D/B/A Fresh Start Frankfort does
Mission
The organization is dedicated to providing shelter, services and support to homeless, single women and homeless families with children in franklin and surrounding counties. The shelter provides direct assistance and referral services to community members who are at risk of homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization provides emergency, temporary, and transitional housing to homeless women and families with children. The services include case management, referral assistance, employmnet assistance, and securing long-term housing. The shelter offers a sober living environment for those struggling with substance abuse issues.
$247,122 spent$165,612 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $247,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $542k to $661k (+22%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 31% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Janet Gates
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $6k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT’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
FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 99% · 2022 57% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
54% of FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $57k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT?
- FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,862 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($65,652). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $122,862 in grants to FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $65,652 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKLIN COUNTY WOMEN AND FAMILY SHELTER D/B/A FRESH START FRANKFORT 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing