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Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc
Catholic charities of louisville serves people in need, especially the poor and oppressed.
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.
The 33 grants below total $22,421,289 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $53,392,376 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $30,971,087 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+16 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC | $9,624,855 |
| WESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC | $2,329,602 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,252,503 |
| FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $852,034 |
| BOWLING GREEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL | $733,901 |
| REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC | $727,921 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $705,337 |
| BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $530,264 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC | $428,386 |
| WARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $397,490 |
| SEE FORWARD MINISTRIES | $375,347 |
| DAVIES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $362,002 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $360,067 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF OWENSBORO | $317,274 |
| MARAFIKI CENTER | $313,129 |
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 (FY17–25, $13.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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
- KRKENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $70M · revenue +220% · 81% of their budget
- WKWESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +228% · 40% of their budget
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +75% · 81% of their budget
Funded once
- EKEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $265k
- ZCZIP CLINICone grant, 2017 · $253k
- GRGREEN RIVER DISTRICT HEALTH DEPTone grant, 2017 · $72k
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 advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
To provide affordable primary healthcare services in muhlenberg and logan counties, kentucky, and in medically under-served urban, suburban, and rural areas having limited available health resources.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
Neighbors Immigration Clinic is a ministry of hospitality that welcomes immigrants by providing affordable, high-quality immigration legal services to low-income immigrants, engaging in advocacy for immigrant rights, and offering education…
To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity's purpose is to work on a statewide level to create partnerships, financial resources, and educational programs to support the mission of building decent, affordable, and sustainable homes and communities for…
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
To strengthen our communities by providing workforce-relevant services for businesses and workers by creating partnerships that ultimately contribute to regional economic vitality, increased wages, higher education, and a better quality of…
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Ky Refugee Mutual Assistance Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 13% 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 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 KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family Health Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOWLING GREEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SEE FORWARD MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MARAFIKI CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASITA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Gate of Hope Ministries Intl Inc ↗
- Who funds SCKY FOUNDATION FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Community Agenda for Regained Empowerment ↗
- Who funds AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER 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 Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Kentucky Inc · Owensboro Health Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku 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 Catholic Charities of Louisville 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.