· Private foundation
Access Ventures Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $574k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YULBANG USA | $829,298 |
| GALILEE BAPTIST CHURCH | $623,901 |
| HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT | $175,000 |
| M1 INSTITUTE LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE | $163,213 |
| ACE PROJECT INC | $115,500 |
| ESTHER INTERNATIONAL INC | $60,024 |
| ACCESS JUSTICE | $60,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION - LOCKWOOD HOLMES | $49,478 |
| PUSEY HOUSE CIO | $45,544 |
| GALILEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $29,000 |
| CHRISTIAN PSYCHOLOGY INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| HOSEA'S HOUSE INC | $18,500 |
| TROY CENTER | $12,919 |
| THE MONARCH MUSIC & ARTS COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| REFUGEE INVESTMENT NETWORK INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MmRelief2× · 2019–2021 · $650k · revenue +307% · 30% of their budget
- APAce Project Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $279k · revenue +19% · 55% of their budget
- LELEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE3× · 2019–2022 · $265k · revenue +577% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $300k
- PPADSPLITone grant, 2019 · $300k
- NNESTERLYone grant, 2019 · $300k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To create positive impact in housing and economic development, while helping families to have access to affordable, quality housing within our historic urban neighborhoods.
All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…
The mission of CLOUT is to solve serious community problems by bringing together diverse religious congregations predominantly in low-to-middle income communities of Louisville for leadership training and taking unified action.
Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.
Identify, mobilize, and fund programs to address louisville's greatest challenges regarding business growth and increased economic prosperity for all citizens in the greater louisville region.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.
Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.
As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…
Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.
To empower individuals with disabilities and their families to lead fulfilled and productive lives. harbor house empowers individuals through employment, education, and community building opportunities.
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sorenson Impact Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds mRelief ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Ace Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDEAVOR LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds finEQUITY Inc ↗
- Who funds DOLLAR FOR ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ECONOMIC DIVERSITY DEVELOPME ↗
- Who funds Sorenson Impact Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN CARE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSEAS HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Access Ventures Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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