· Public charity
Association of Community Ministries Inc
The association of community ministries (acm) is an umbrella organization bringing 13 louisville, kentucky-based community ministries together to serve residents on a neighborhood level.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $1,273,316 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,304,228 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,912 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES | $119,423 |
| EAST AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $117,595 |
| FERN CREEKHIGH VIEW UNITED MIN | $116,973 |
| SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MIN | $114,994 |
| SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES | $112,045 |
| WEST LOUISVILLE COMM MIN | $103,595 |
| SISTER VISITOR | $103,050 |
| MINISTRIES UNITED SOUTH CENTRAL LOU | $100,140 |
| CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MIN | $96,973 |
| SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $92,263 |
| ST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES | $70,050 |
| HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $65,595 |
| UNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES | $60,620 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
- SLSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +96% · 73% of their budget
- CLCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +186% · 83% of their budget
- WLWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $877k · revenue +14% · 71% of their budget
Funded once
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 association of community ministries (acm) is an umbrella organization bringing 13 louisville, kentucky-based community ministries together to serve residents on a neighborhood level. the acm network is proud to be a national model…
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Benevolence to community families
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Assistance to people in need
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Community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Area Community Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of Louisville 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 13 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 SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Southwest Community Ministries ↗
- Who funds WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE 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: Community Winterhelp Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Baird 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 Association of Community Ministries 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.