· Private foundation
Caroline Christian 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 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 |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY OF LOUISVILLE | $1,500 |
| WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF LOUISVILLE | $1,000 |
| HARVEY BROWNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA | $1,000 |
| DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS DISASTER SERVICES | $1,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES | $600 |
| COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF LOUISVILLE | $500 |
| CEDAR RIDGE CAMP | $500 |
| RESTORATIVE JUSTICE LOUISVILLE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| PERIMETER CHURCH | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE | $250 |
| LOUISVILLE YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $250 |
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, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- WCWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +37%
- DTDARE TO CARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +38%
- RJRESTORATIVE JUSTICE LOUISVILLE8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +197%
Funded once
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH HOMEone grant, 2018 · $525
- TWTEAM WKY TORNADO RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $500
- EPECH PROMISE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Whas Crusade for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cedar Ridge Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 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 0% 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 76 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 WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR RIDGE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE JUSTICE LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS AUDUBON ↗
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 Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Julia & Isadore Klein Family Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation 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 Caroline Christian 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.
- Brattleboro Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
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.