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Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc

Catholic charities of louisville serves people in need, especially the poor and oppressed.

$53M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$70MHuman Services$17MEducation$8.9MInternational$3.4MHealth$3.3MEmployment$2.1MArts & Culture$529kCommunity Improvement$232kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $22,421,289, the rows itemized in this filing. The $53,392,376 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $30,971,087 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+16 grants · $21M
$241,028
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WESTERN KENTUCKY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $3.5M → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $2.3M → 18%WESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $2.3M → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $1.4M → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $757k → 18%WESTERN KY REFUGEE - MAA: $587k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $558k → 18%WESTERN KENTUCKY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $403k → 18%WESTERN KY REFUGEE - MAA: $261k → 18%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $219k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $35k → 15%COMMUNITY AGENDA FOR REGAINED EMPOWERMENT: $79k → 18%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $7k → 15%AUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $23k → 13%COMMUNITY AGENDA FOR REGAINED EMPOWERMENT: $29k → 18%LA CASITA CENTER INC: $116k → 15%LA CASITA CENTER INC: $81k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $202k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $167k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $127k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $117k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $115k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $114k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $86k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $80k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $69k → 15%THE CENTER FOR WOMAN AND FAMILIES: $7k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105M · 37 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$105M
$836k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+21%

Still filing today

68%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEmploymentReligionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KR
    KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $70M · revenue +144% · 81% of their budget
  • WK
    WESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +133% · 49% of their budget
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +75% · 81% of their budget

Funded once

  • EK
    EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $265k
  • ZC
    ZIP CLINIC
    one grant, 2017 · $253k
  • GR
    GREEN RIVER DISTRICT HEALTH DEPT
    one grant, 2017 · $72k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Action Kentucky Inc

To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.

Community Improvement
2
Neighbors Immigration Clinic Inc

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…

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3
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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4
Central Kentucky Community Action Council Inc

This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.

Human Services
5
Community Health Centers of Western Kentucky Inc

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.

Health
6
Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation
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7
Eastern Kentucky Concentrated Employment Program Inc

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…

Employment
8
Healthpoint Family Care Inc

To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.

Health
9
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
10
Kentucky River Community Care Inc

The Organization provides mental/development disability and drug and alcohol rehabilitation services to an eight-county area in Southeastern Kentucky. During the year, approximately 9,667 people benefited from this program.

Health
11
Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc

The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.

Animals
12
Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc

Catholic charities of louisville serves people in need, especially the poor and oppressed. consistent with the principles of catholic social teaching, we build bridges of hope, mercy, and justice as we accompany struggling families and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC: $69,518,286 · ReligionKENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC+1 more: $700,290 · ReligionWESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC: $12,145,636 · Human ServicesWESTERN KY REF…JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,075,694 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY …+5 more: $595,409 · Human ServicesWARREN COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $1,638,292 · OtherWARREN COU…COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $933,560 · OtherCOMMUNITY …FAYETTE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $699,238 · OtherFAYETTE CO…ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF OWENSBORO: $684,868 · OtherROMAN CATH…JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $625,251 · OtherJEFFERSON …OWENSBORO PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $527,615 · OtherOWENSBORO …REFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC: $1,476,665 · OtherREFUGE BOW…GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $499,202 · OtherMARAFIKI CENTER INC: $529,273 · OtherMARAFIKI C…+19 more: $2,216,084 · Other+19 moreBOWLING GREEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $1,192,705 · EducationUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $1,008,287 · EducationOWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $484,796 · EducationSOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $465,091 · EducationBLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,908 · Education+2 more: $76,964 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,281,711 · InternationalGate of Hope Ministries Intl Inc: $147,938 · InternationalJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,046,650 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $555,474 · PhilanthropyFamily Health Centers Inc: $1,741,421 · HealthBLUEGRASS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $585,711 · Health+2 more: $49,714 · Health
Religion$70,218,576Human Services$13,816,739Other$9,830,048Education$3,528,751International$3,429,649Philanthropy$2,602,124Health$2,376,846

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC: $69,518,286 over 9y, 81% of budgetWESTERN KY REFUGEE MUTUAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY INC: $12,145,636 over 9y, 49% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,281,711 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,046,650 over 7y, 81% of budgetFamily Health Centers Inc: $1,741,421 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetREFUGE BOWLING GREEN INC: $1,476,665 over 3y, 69% of budgetBOWLING GREEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $1,192,705 over 7y, 29% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,075,694 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $1,008,287 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC: $933,560 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSEE FORWARD MINISTRIES: $700,290 over 2y, 73% of budgetBLUEGRASS PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTER: $585,711 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DAVIESS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $555,474 over 5y, 11% of budgetMARAFIKI CENTER INC: $529,273 over 2y, 58% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $499,202 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $484,796 over 7y, 20% of budgetSOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $465,091 over 7y, 29% of budgetBLUEGRASS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,908 over 9y, 10% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $260,597 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC: $197,103 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetGate of Hope Ministries Intl Inc: $147,938 over 3y, 15% of budgetSCKY FOUNDATION FOR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC: $142,689 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNEW AMERICANS INITIATIVE: $142,440 over 1y, 30% of budgetCommunity Agenda for Regained Empowerment: $108,061 over 2y, 32% of budgetAMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $90,874 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE OWENSBORO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetNorton Hospitals Inc: $42,699 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUDUBON AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $22,624 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $7,024 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Whas Crusade for …Metro United Way IncThe Gheens Foundation…United Way of Souther…Owensboro Health IncDollar General Litera…Jobs for Kentucky's G…Honorable Order of Ke…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY40.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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