Kentucky · Nonprofit
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,698,126 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($418,169). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93M
- Funders on record
- 69
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $97M
What Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc does
Mission
Our mission is dedicated to providing specialized hospice, palliative and interdisciplinary medical care to the seriously ill and their families. As a dedicated leader in hospice and palliative care, we engage in community partnerships, education, counseling and provide opportunities to staff, volunteers and donors to enrich lives through their gifts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Hospice of the bluegrass, inc. D/b/a bluegrass hospice care, is an organization devoted to caring for the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill individuals and their families. The care provided includes counseling, palliative and supportive care. Support, education, and bereavement services are provided to the community as well. Bluegrass hospice care provided 380,444 days of patient care to approximately 6,100 patients in 32 counties within kentucky. Bereavement counselors provided counseling to 2,370 individuals during the year. Charity care provided to patients approximated $6,011,000. Please visit our website at www.bgcarenav.org for further information on services provided.
$69,534,533 spentof which $1,671,483 as grants$75,143,802 earned by the program90% of program spendingHospice of the bluegrass, inc. D/b/a bluegrass pace care is a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly enrolling 30 participants. Bluegrass pace care provides coordinated care by a multidisciplinary healthcare team providing medical care and supportive services, such as preventative care, therapy, nutritional care, social services, transportation, and medication management.
$4,125,594 spent$2,453,944 earned by the program5% of program spendingHospice of the bluegrass, inc. D/b/a bluegrass home health care serves bourbon, harrison, nicholas, and scott counties in kentucky. Bluegrass home health care provides in home care such as skilled nursing, home health aid, social services, and therapies. Additional services include early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment, waiver services, and outpatient medical supplies.
$2,293,640 spent$1,881,281 earned by the program3% of program spendingHospice of the bluegrass, inc. D/b/a bluegrass transitional care, provides transitional care to qualifying patients to assist them when coming home after a hospital stay in an effort to keep them from having to be readmitted soon after discharge.
$926,551 spent$1,043,061 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $76,880,318.
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 2019 to 2020, from $111M to $129M (+17%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $117k → $318k.
13 of 69 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 funders by total. 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
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% 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 Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 28% · 2019 38% · 2020 35% · 2021 22% · 2022 32% · 2023 47% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
56% of Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $744k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$468k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Hospice of the Bluegrass 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Palliative Care Center of the Bluegrass Inc · exempt
- Hospice of the Bluegrass Foundation Inc · exempt
- Everent Health Inc · exempt
- Perpetual Trusts (4) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc?
- Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,698,126 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($418,169). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc have?
- IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $1,698,126 in grants to Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $418,169 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hospice of the Bluegrass 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.
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 69 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