Kentucky · Nonprofit
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION (Kentucky) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,658,513 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,291,027). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Lexington Rescue Mission does
Mission
The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
OUTREACH SERVICES - In 2025, we ministered to 307 people who were experiencing homelessness, including providing overnight shelter, daytime shelter, and help getting off the street. During the winter months, our team managed 20 motel rooms for the citys emergency winter shelter efforts, providing 65 people with overnight shelter in the coldest months. Year-round, the mission welcomed anyone who was homeless to our daytime shelter, where they received help meeting their immediate needs, including mail, laundry, showers, and supplies, and help connecting to critical services, including addiction treatment. We were able to help 55 people off the streets and into residential substance abuse treatment programs. In 2025, our Homeless Intervention Program team helped 66 homeless households move into housing, including 80 adults and 27 children, by providing housing counseling, rent assistance, case management, and support. After six months, 73% of our clients had still maintained their rental housing. Our team also prevented 20 seniors from eviction by partnering with the social workers at Connie Griffith and Ballard Towers, across the street from the mission. By working with them, we…
$1,228,216 spent52% of program spendingRESTORATIVE SERVICES - In 2025, we housed 89 men and 23 women in our transitional homes, providing them with the support they needed to rebuild their lives on Jesus Christ. While they were in the program and upon exit, they achieved the following outcomes: 50 volunteered in the community, 67 gained employment, 87 maintained sobriety, 41 reunified with family, 3 returned to rehab, 6 moved to permanent housing, and 14 were baptized. The average number of days residents stayed at the Potters House was 48 days, House of Hope was 170 days, and Grace Place was 334 days. Upon program exit, 23 residents left the program successfully and 46 left in poor standing. Last year, we saw significant improvements in residents getting involved in their churches, engaging with mentors, and developing deeper community as well as growing in their relationship with Christ. We are so thankful for the ways He is moving in their lives.
$655,159 spent28% of program spendingRE-ENTRY SERVICES - In 2025, we had a record number of people come to the mission after being released from incarceration, needing help with their re-entry. We provided 147 people with 679 re-entry case management sessions, helping them with their specific challenges. Of these 147 re-entry clients, 137 stayed out of jail or prison. Furthermore, we taught 448 incarcerated men and women life-skills using Jobs for Life and The Genesis Process, and 124 graduated from these classes. We taught the classes in Fayette, Madison, and Woodford County detention centers, and this month, we expanded into Jessamine County Detention Center. We were able to rebuild much of the jail ministry that was lost during the COVID shutdown, thanks to God opening doors. He also moved powerfully in these classes, with 50 people making personal commitments to Christ and 27 people being baptized.
$309,616 spent13% of program spendingEMPLOYMENT SERVICES - In 2025, God opened the door to expand Jobs for Life to equip people for work and offer hope for the future. We started teaching Jobs for Life classes to the men in the recovery programs at Revive Ministries and The Hope Center, and we continued our classes at Victory House. Last year, 190 people took our Jobs for Life classes, 68 graduated from Jobs for Life and we placed 92 people in jobs. As we look ahead to the coming year, we have more opportunities to expand Jobs for Life, but we need volunteers who can mentor and teach in order to add these new classes.
$150,837 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,343,828.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.7M to $9.0M (+145%).
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
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 6 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $151k → $1.1M.
19 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 54 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 71%; 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; 61% 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
55% 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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 88% 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 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
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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
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
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION?
- LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION (Kentucky) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,658,513 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,291,027). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% 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 54 organizations giving $4,658,513 in grants to LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION, 33 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 54 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