· Private foundation
C F Pollard Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUC ASSIST FUND | $50,000 |
| WEST END SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| METRO UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY- K-FUND | $24,400 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - EASTERN KY FLOODS | $20,000 |
| GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $10,000 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS | $7,500 |
| LOUISVILLE FILM SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PAWS WITH PURPOSE | $5,000 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $5,000 |
| OUR MIMS RETIREMENT HAVEN | $5,000 |
| GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $19k) 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.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- 2C21ST CENTURY PARKS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $620k · revenue +23%
- WEWest End School Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +15%
- HFHORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +53% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KY - CFP SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- SRSERGEANT RECKLESS MEMORIAL FUND - KENTUCKY HORSE PARKone grant, 2018 · $15k
- WKWESTERN KY CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…
Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…
The organization is dedicated to the improvement of thoroughbred breeding and racing. It fulfills that mandate by serving many segments of the industry through its subsidiary companies and by providing support to a wide range of industry…
To provide exclusively for the benefit, aid, relief, and assistance of the racing personnel employed in connection with horse racing who can demonstrate their need for financial assistance.
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…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
To maintain and support a continuing partnership between the university of kentucky and the equine industry of the commonwealth of kentucky to enhance and improve the equine research program at the university.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jockey Club Safety Net Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Paws With Purpose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 59 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 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds HORSE FARM WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOCKEY CLUB SAFETY NET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUR MIMS RETIREMENT HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING 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 · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Mightycause Charitable 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 C F Pollard 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.
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.