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Community Winterhelp Inc

Provides utility assistance to low-income families.

$197k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$1.2MReligion$312kHousing & Shelter$84kEnvironment$13k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $190,626 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $196,626 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,000 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 · $9k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $182k
$14,634
Median grant
1
States reached
$107k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$19,493
FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$18,161
WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$17,351
JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES$16,703
CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$15,730
SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$15,417
SISTER VISITOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES$14,634
SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$14,348
HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$13,425
MINISTIRES UNITED OF SOUTH CENTRAL LOUISVILLE$13,238
ST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES$11,952
SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES$11,474
UNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES$8,700
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $700k) 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.

area typical 11%Jeffersontown Area Ministries: $44k → 15%Jefferstown Area Ministries: $44k → 15%Jeffersontown Area Ministries: $27k → 15%JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES: $17k → 15%JEFFERSONTOWN AREA UNITED MINISTRIE: $17k → 15%Jeffersontown Area Ministries: $8k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $24k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $20k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $20k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $15k → 15%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $14k → 15%Southwest Community Ministries: $8k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Mininstries: $45k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Ministries: $44k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Ministries: $35k → 15%FERN CREEKHIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRI: $19k → 15%FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $18k → 15%Fern Creek Highview United Ministries: $15k → 15%WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIE: $30k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries: $29k → 15%WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $17k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries: $17k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries: $17k → 15%West Louisville Community Ministries Inc: $9k → 15%SISTER VISITOR CENTER: $44k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $27k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $27k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $22k → 15%SISTER VISITOR CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $15k → 15%Sister Visitor Center Catholic Charities: $12k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 14 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$1.5M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SL
    SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +211%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +290%
  • WL
    WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOUTH EAST ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -97%
  • CK
    CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • MC
    MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Ministries Inc Community Kitchen

Providing free lunches to the hungry, sheltering the homeless during inclement weather, and case management for those seeking financial assistance. services are offered to those in the paducah, kentucky area.

Religion
2
Association of Community Ministries Inc

The association of community ministries (acm) is an umbrella organization bringing 13 louisville, kentucky-based community ministries together to serve residents on a neighborhood level. the acm network is proud to be a national model…

Religion
3
Lamar Area Christian Ministries Association

Benevolence to community families

4
Christian Action Ministries

Christian Action Ministries is a non-denominational local organization that is dedicated to providing short-term food assistance to individuals and families in Taney and Stone Counties in Missouri who are experiencing temporary crisis.

5
Christian Community Ministries of Kershaw County

Christian Community Ministries is a financial crisis ministry helping those who fall within our definition of crisis. Except for one paid administrator, we are a totally volunteer organization. We operate as an extension of the servant…

Religion
6
Community Action of Southern Kentucky Inc

We team with Community partners to provide human services with dignity and respect, empowering people in Southern Kentucky to achieve stability and economic security.

7
Coordinated Assistance Ministries

Assistance ministry for those in need.

Human Services
8
Jefferson County Community Ministries Inc

Assistance to people in need

9
Liberal Ministerial Alliance

Community service

Religion
10
Limestone County Churches Involved

To provide food and general assistance to individuals of Limestone County Alabama who are facing short term financial crisesTo mobilize churches of Limestone County to provide a prayerful way to meet the physical and spiritual needs of…

Religion
11
Shelby County Outreach Ministries Inc

Community assistance for elderly and disadvantaged

Community Improvement
12
Faith Mountain Mission of Kentucky Inc
Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Area Community Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of Louisville 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $171,863 · OtherSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $112,024 · OtherCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $108,539 · OtherEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIESM U S C L INC — $108,445 · OtherM U S C L INCHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $98,016 · OtherHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES — $65,755 · OtherST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIESUNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INC — $62,782 · OtherUNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INC+2 more — $22,478 · OtherFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES — $175,964 · Human ServicesFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIESJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC — $156,582 · Human ServicesJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC — $146,197 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INCWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $118,954 · Human ServicesWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCSouthwest Community Ministries — $101,882 · Human ServicesSouthwest Community Ministries+2 more — $6,256 · Human ServicesSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES — $106,920 · Housing & Shelter
Other$749,902Human Services$705,835Housing & Shelter$106,920

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES — $175,964 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $171,863 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetJEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC — $156,582 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC — $146,197 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $118,954 over 6y, 16% of budgetCENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $112,024 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetEASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES — $108,539 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES — $106,920 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSouthwest Community Ministries — $101,882 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $13,530 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH EAST ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES INC — $8,948 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $3,128 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC — $3,128 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 FERN CREEK HIGHVIEW UNITED MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds JEFFERSONTOWN AREA MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC
  • Who funds WEST LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds EASTERN AREA COMMUNITY MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES
  • Who funds Southwest Community Ministries
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC
  • Who funds SOUTH EAST ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds MULTI-PURPOSE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY 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.

Metro United Way IncKY34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Metro United Way Inc · Association of Community Ministries Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dare to Care Inc · Meals on Wheels America

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 Community Winterhelp 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your 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
    9report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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