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NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC

NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,761 to it, the largest being HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY INC ($80,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$122M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$98k
Net assets
$55M
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What New Vista of the Bluegrass Inc does

Mission

The mission of new vista of the bluegrass, inc. (new vista) is to assist individuals and families in the enhancement of their emotional, mental and physical well-being by providing mental health, substance abuse, and intellectual and developmental disability services. We recognize our responsibility to serve those who have limited options for meeting their needs, we plan with our communities, develop innovative programs to respond rapidly to needs and, as appropriate, help influence community priorities to ensure that individual and community service gaps are addressed.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Mental health (adult):new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Is a certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) providing a wide range of adult mental health services including care coordination, outpatient therapy, case management, housing support, assertive community treatment (act), psychiatric services, crisis services, supported employment, therapeutic rehabilitation program (trp), and jail triage. To maximize access as well as better serve the homeless population in lexington, new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Has developed a peer operated drop-in center to access basic needs in downtown lexington and richmond. This complements the permanent supportive housing through the lexington and balance of state homeless continuums of care located in fayette, madison, estill, powell and clark counties. Integrating treatment, new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Has primary care that is embedded in programming in order to serve the whole person and meet medical needs in an integrated healthcare environment. Care coordination works closely with primary care services to connect individuals with medical, psychiatric, clinical and social drivers of health resources. Additionally, individual…

    $37,235,799 spent$38,032,552 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  2. Idd services:new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Serves as the primary assessment entity for all individuals seeking the michelle p. Waiver, a medicaid funded program, within our region. This system includes all initial assessments, as well as annual re-certifications for continued services. New vista of the bluegrass, inc. Continues to provide intellectual and developmental disabilities medicaid waiver case management services. Financial management is also provided to individuals who receive participant directed services. The medicaid waivers include supports for community living, michelle p, acquired brain injury and acquired brain injury - long term care. New vista of the bluegrass, inc. Idd services continue to focus on the needs of individuals with co-occurring behavioral health needs. New vista of the bluegrass, inc. Has a 24-hour, 7 day a week crisis response system that assists individuals with receiving support in the least restrictive environment and preventing in-patient hospitalization. New vista of the bluegrass, inc. Idd services also provides evaluators to respond to all 202b petitions for involuntary admission to an intermediate care facility that are presented in the…

    $48,719,181 spent$51,909,137 earned by the program
    48% of program spending
  3. Substance use disorder services:new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Is a certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) providing a broad continuum of substance use disorder (sud) services for adolescents and adults including psychoeducation and prevention, case management, peer support, intensive outpatient programming (iop), outpatient therapy, medications for opioid use disorder (moud) and 28-day residential treatment for adults. New vista of the bluegrass, inc. Runs a licensed opioid treatment program (otp) and prescribes methadone, suboxone, buprenorphine and naltrexone mouds. New vista of the bluegrass, inc. Also operates quick response teams (qrts) that responds immediately following a non-fatal overdose.integrating treatment, new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Has primary care available for whole person care within the clinic setting. Care coordination works closely with primary care services to connect individuals with medical, psychiatric, clinical and social drivers of health resources. Individual placement and support (ips) supportive employment is also embedded in sud programming to provide more intensive support for those with a moderate or severe sud. Similarly,…

    $12,853,672 spent$13,128,709 earned by the program
    13% of program spending
  4. Primary care: new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Is a certified community behavioral health clinic (ccbhc) providing primary care to serve the region, with physical locations in all four of new vista's anchor sites (fayette, madison, scott and boyle counties) and one primary care provider collocated with the new vista of the bluegrass. Inc. Opioid treatment program. Telehealth is also utilized to increase the reach of primary care services. Recognizing the complex behavioral health and physical health needs of individuals served, new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Provides integrated care to target those most in need of care. Primary care services are offered to anyone without a current primary care physician. For clients who engage in primary care, new vista of the bluegrass, inc. Offers biometric screening, diagnostic assessments, treatments, and preventative care. New vista of the bluegrass, inc. Primary care providers also provide medication for the treatment of substance use disorders including moud (medication for opioid use disorder). Primary care providers are implementing health screening and monitoring for all clients in alignment with the whole person health philosophy of…

    $2,391,157 spent$2,442,322 earned by the program
    2% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $101,199,809.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($66M) Expenses 100 ($70M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2018 Revenue 108 ($72M) Expenses 100 ($70M) Net assets 106 ($34M)2020 Revenue 116 ($77M) Expenses 109 ($76M) Net assets 116 ($37M)2021 Revenue 125 ($83M) Expenses 112 ($78M) Net assets 131 ($42M)2022 Revenue 129 ($85M) Expenses 114 ($80M) Net assets 147 ($47M)2023 Revenue 152 ($101M) Expenses 140 ($98M) Net assets 156 ($50M)2024 Revenue 166 ($110M) Expenses 156 ($109M) Net assets 160 ($51M)2025 Revenue 185 ($122M) Expenses 170 ($118M) Net assets 172 ($55M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (170)Net assets (172)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $59M to $63M (+8%).

$45M
$47M
$53M
$54M
$59M
$63M
$65M
$68M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 6% · 2020 9% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 12% · 2024 12% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,211 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3.5M
’17
$1.9M
’18
$486k
’20
$4.7M
’21
$5.4M
’22
$3.3M
’23
$944k
’24
$3.8M
’25
2.9
months of
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.

Board chair

Susan Starling

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Joined·+2·+6+2+1+0+5
No longer listed·8·24303
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $27k → $517.

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2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS 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

NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC.

82%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

KY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.3M on record — $14.3M federal, $14 state.

Federal$14.3M
grants $14.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$10.5M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.8M
State$14
Top programs
  • FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $14

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 NEW VISTA 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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Part of a family of 24 related entities

  • New Vista Real Estate Holdings LLC · disregarded
  • Aqueduct Place Inc · exempt
  • Ashland Group Home Inc · exempt
  • Bivins Place Inc · exempt
  • New Vista Communities Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC?
NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,761 to it, the largest being HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY INC ($80,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $97,761 in grants to NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW VISTA OF THE BLUEGRASS INC?
HEART OF KENTUCKY UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $80,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW VISTA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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