Kentucky · Nonprofit
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION (Kentucky) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,618,763 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,291,027). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Bluegrass Incshared funderslocal
- The Good Samaritan Foundationportfolio match
- Good News Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 14% · 2022 6% · 2023 11% · 2024 19% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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 6 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $151k → $1.1M.
19 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 45% · 2019 27% · 2020 34% · 2021 23% · 2022 34% · 2023 33% — 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
65% of LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 53 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Bluegrass Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- The Good Samaritan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good News Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Serving USA Inc Fka Serving Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCauley-Lindsay Charities of Tennportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dcm Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homer Vinson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mike Meinze Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mission Possibleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dare to Care Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gheens Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- The Norton Foundation Incshared fundersKY · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $389k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$389k
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 LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION?
- LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION (Kentucky) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,618,763 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,291,027). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $4,618,763 in grants to LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,291,027 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 53funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing