· Private foundation
Arthur J & Mary C Lerman Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARMEL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT | $60,000 |
| PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $7,410 |
| SAINT LEONARD CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,842 |
| THE QUEENS DAUGHTERS | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +128%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +109%
- CECATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $12k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- KOKENTUCKY OPERAone grant, 2023 · $9k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +189%
- KDKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLETgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +51%
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.
The louisville academy of music welcomes everyone to join our musical community. lam nurtures lifelong learners, not solely as musicians but also as creative, inspired people. equity in music education is a force to realize potential,…
To provide, in cooperation with public and private schools, equitable access to the highest quality musical opportunities and to foster a life- long love of music for dedicated young musicians. ckyo enriches the lives of its student…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Its mission is to perform great performances for greater audiences. the kansas city symphony will achieve this mission by: - developing an uncompromising performance standard. - advancing the profile and value of the orchestra locally,…
Opera theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities through the power and beauty of the art form; to foster the next generation by empowering a diverse group of artists,…
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
Kentucky opera sparks discovery, joy, and connection among communities throughout the commonwealth with the shared experience of opera.
The colorado symphony association (csa) is a not-for-profit organization established to fund and operate the colorado symphony orchestra for the enjoyment and benefit of the citizens of metropolitan denver and (cont'd on schedule…
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the cincinnati symphony orchestra is to seek and share inspiration.
The foundation supports the university of louisville in its effort to maintain its distinction as a premier, nationally recognized metropolitan research university while promoting the university's departments in their educational,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisville Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Metro Police Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Kindred Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Harshaw Family Foundation · Mackin Foundation Inc · Arthur K Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation · The W Bruce Lunsford Foundation Inc · The Norton Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman 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 Arthur J & Mary C Lerman Charitable Foundation 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.
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
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.