· Private foundation
Bader Family Charitable Trust
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| DOGS HELPING HEROES INC | $12,000 |
| Educational Justice | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENTUCKIANA | $10,000 |
| University of Louisville | $10,000 |
| I WOULD RATHER BE READING | $10,000 |
| Kentucky Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 |
| EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BUBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +2%
- KHKENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +66%
- DHDogs Helping Heroes Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +252%
Funded once
- LFLouisville Free Public Libraryone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SUSPALDING UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -8%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -15%
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 empower individuals with disabilities and their families to lead fulfilled and productive lives. harbor house empowers individuals through employment, education, and community building opportunities.
Seeking to put gods love into action habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes community and hope
The organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Helping Heroes provides support services and resources to homeless and near homeless veterans, in order to transition them to, or maintain self-sufficiency. The goal is reintegration into society as men and women who currently feel…
Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…
The mission of the fair housing center of central indiana (fhcci) is to facilitate open housing for all people by ensuring the availability of affordable and accessible housing; promoting housing choice and homeownership; advocating for an…
The University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul Council of Louisville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dogs Helping Heroes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Dogs Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds I Would Rather Be Reading ↗
- Who funds SPALDING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Club 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 · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee 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 Bader Family Charitable Trust 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.