· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SUSPALDING UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -8%
- LFLouisville Free Public Libraryone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +11%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bader Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bader Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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