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Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UOFL SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY | $8,000 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| DTA FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS | $4,000 |
| NEW DIRECTION HOUSING CORP | $3,000 |
| TREES LOUISVILLE | $3,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $3,000 |
| DARE TO CARE | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HILDGARD HOUSE | $2,000 |
| LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL BSA | $2,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| PAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO INC | $2,000 |
| CLOUT | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
38 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WBWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +42%
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +263%
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $35k
- LPLIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -16%
- BCBLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +198%
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.
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…
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The organization provides peer reviewed scientific research and education in the field of biological dentistry.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
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…
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 21ST Century Parks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health Bk 20-04264. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 52 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 METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO ↗
- Who funds TREESLOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Oral Health America Americas Fund for Dental Health BK 20-04264 ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR DENTAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LD PANKEY DENTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PROMISE 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 Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Klig Charitable Trust · Nicklies Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County 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 Capricorn Foundation Charitable Tru 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.
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