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Ann B Gipson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$1.2MInternational$707kEducation$145kHuman Services$135kYouth Development$113kHealth$112kFood & Nutrition$88kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM$50,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
HAITIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CITY HOPE CHURCH$10,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$10,000
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WESTERN KY UNIVERSITY FCA$10,000
LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL$10,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
CURE INTERNATIONAL$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 17 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

$2.4M
$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+90%

Still filing today

53%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionFood & NutritionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • Feeding America
    8× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +84%
  • Living Water International
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +5%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • WF
    WOMENS FUND OF S CENTRAL KY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • KO
    KIDS ON THE BLOCK
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • ZG
    ZOOM GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +90%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
2
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
3
Be Hope International
Religion
4
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
5
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
6
Real Love Ministries International

RLMI is organized exclusively for charitable purposes. Our Mission is to minister to the Haitian people beginning in the village of Laffiteau seeking to share the love of Jesus with each individual and discipling those who know Jesus as…

Religion
7
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

8
Light International Inc

Evangelistic and mission programs

9
Haven of Hope International Inc

Haven of hope international (hohi) is at the forefront of orphan care innovation with its mission to raise the standard of care for orphans left behind and abandoned by traditional adoption systems. its mission is simple and specific:…

International
10
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
11
Lespri Ministries

Lespri Ministries seeks to see the country of Haiti transformed through: valuing educating equipping and empowering Haitis orphans children and youth with a special emphasis on leadership training and practical preparatory skills for life.…

International
12
Life As Mission
Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zoom Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Tko Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAITIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION INC — $1,140,000 · OtherHAITIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION INCIndividual grant recipient — $591,625 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY — $135,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY+17 more — $341,296 · Other+17 moreFeeding America — $87,500 · Food & NutritionLiving Water International — $80,000 · Human ServicesLOUISVILLE TKO INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC — $50,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,000 · ReligionHope House Ministries Inc — $10,000 · ReligionCURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,000 · InternationalBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthHABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC — $6,000 · Health
Other$2,207,921Food & Nutrition$87,500Human Services$80,000Youth Development$75,000Education$50,000Religion$25,000International$20,000Health$16,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAITIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION INC — $1,140,000 over 9y, 23% of budgetFeeding America — $87,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Water International — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISVILLE TKO INC — $75,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetBOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $50,200 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope House Ministries Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budget
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 HAITIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION INC
  • Who funds Feeding America
  • Who funds Living Water International
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE TKO INC
  • Who funds BOWLING GREEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Who funds BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC
  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds ZOOM GROUP INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds Hope House Ministries Inc
  • Who funds HABILITATION INFORMATION VOCATION EDUCATION 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ann B Gipson Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
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no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ann B Gipson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ann B Gipson Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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