· Public charity
Dare to Care Inc
Working together to provide pathways to end hunger in our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $325,416 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $46,140,449 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,815,033 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $298k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE | $37,631 |
| THE WELCOME TABLE AT BRIARGATE PRESBYTERIAN | $33,898 |
| THE LORDS KITCHEN MINISTRIES | $33,871 |
| AWAKE MINISTRIES | $31,919 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $30,151 |
| IGLESIA BUENAS NUEVAS | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| OVERFLOW COMMUNITY CENTER | $19,052 |
| THE HEALING PLACE | $19,048 |
| CHFS - CABINET FOR HEALTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $11,605 |
| HOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA | $10,352 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY | $10,000 |
| SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| NAZARENE PANRY - SHEPHERDVILLE FIRST CHURCH | $8,802 |
| GENESIS HOUSE | $7,358 |
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 (FY23–25, $297k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 12 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k 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
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue -19%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $78k · revenue +1%
- CFCENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SCSIMPSONVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $40k
- FLFeed Louisville Incone grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue 0%
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF LOUISVILLEone grant, 2024 · $37k
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.
Providing emergency assistance to needy individuals.
Sunshine ministries is committed to providing high-quality christian social services to the poor and needy of st. louis by offering healing from the past, help for the present and hope for the future. see schedule o for continuation.
The Louisville Community Food Pantry, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing supplemental groceries to families and individuals in Jefferson County who are in need. We provide food in a way that supports and sustains the dignity of…
Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.
To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.
To provide transitional shelter for homeless women and their dependent children while these women are receiving the necessary training and skills to become self sufficient
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
New directions creates and preserves homes, fosters community stability and supports families on their path to economic success.
The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.
Re:center ministries reconciles homeless and hurting people to god, family and community by the power of christ in partnership with the local church.
To provide for basic human needs, promote positive life changes, and restore hope and protect dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americana Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harrison County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Feed Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Hope Buss Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Harrison County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY 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 · Metro United Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
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 Dare to Care 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.