· Private foundation
Blue Sky Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $250
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW LIFE MINISTRIES | $2,500,000 |
| NORTHSIDE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $250,000 |
| RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY | $150,000 |
| SEED LOUISVILLE INC | $100,000 |
| HOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC | $43,000 |
| NADUS FILMS INC | $31,500 |
| ARUKAH ANIMAL INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $20,000 |
| PAN AMERICAN SANCTUARY ALLICANCE | $15,000 |
| FORGET ME NOT MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST | $10,000 |
| IU FOUNDATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $424k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +61% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue ×12 · 91% of their budget
- AVACCESS VENTURES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $6.1M · revenue +15% · 43% of their budget
- NLNew Life International Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $5.0M · revenue +90% · 83% of their budget
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $570k
- SJST JOHN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $525k · revenue +189%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 74 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 RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds New Life International Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NADUS FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds NF2 BIOSOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN CARE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Maker Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds FLOYD SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOOSIERS FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALBANY TOWNSHIP LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS COALITION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA 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 Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation · Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc · Access Ventures Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blue Sky Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Sky Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc: 68% of income from government
How this is measured
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