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Dare to Care Inc

Working together to provide pathways to end hunger in our community.

$46M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$599kHuman Services$127kHousing & Shelter$74kReligion$60kHealth$14kEmployment$10k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $325,416, the rows itemized in this filing. The $46,140,449 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,815,033 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 $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $298k
$19,048
Median grant
2
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES$25,000
IGLESIA BUENAS NUEVAS$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
SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES$10,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY$10,000
NAZARENE PANRY - SHEPHERDVILLE FIRST CHURCH$8,802
GENESIS HOUSE$7,358
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA: $10k → 10%AWAKE MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC: $9k → 4%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $40k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE: $38k → 15%SOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $30k → 15%THE HOPE BUSS INC: $35k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $15k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $67k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $33k → 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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 5 repeat orgs$607k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
18

Total granted

$277k
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $78k · revenue +1%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +10%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $36k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIMPSONVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • FL
    Feed Louisville Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue 0%
  • RC
    ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF LOUISVILLE
    one grant, 2024 · $37k
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
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

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.

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2
Louisville Community Food Pantry Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
4
The Hope Center Inc

Our mission is to provide comprehensive life-sustaining and life-rebuilding services that promote healing from substance use disorder, mental health disorders, and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
5
Lexington Rescue Mission

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.

Human Services
6
Sunshine Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Light of Life Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Louisville Outreach for the Unsheltered Inc

We exist to serve our unsheltered neighbors with love and compassion by providing food, essential supplies, resource guidance, care management, and advocacy - always prioritizing their dignity, privacy, and trust.

Human Services
9
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
10
West Side Catholic Center

The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.

Human Services
11
Jefferson Street Baptist Center Inc

Re:center ministries reconciles homeless and hurting people to god, family and community by the power of christ in partnership with the local church.

Religion
12
Peter & Paul Community Services Inc

We walk with people facing homelessness on their journey to lifelong stability.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Family Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 35 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIMPSONVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherSIMPSONVILLE CHRISTIAN CHURCHROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF LOUISVILLE: $37,413 · OtherROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF LOUISVILLEHISTORIC CALVARY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH INC: $37,413 · OtherHISTORIC CALVARY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH INCTHE WELCOME TABLE AT BRIARGATE PRESBYTERIAN: $33,898 · OtherTHE WELCOME TABLE AT BRIARGATE PRESBYTERIANLORDS KITCHEN: $33,871 · OtherLORDS KITCHENAWAKE MINISTRIES: $31,919 · OtherAWAKE MINISTRIESIGLESIA BUENAS NUEVAS: $25,000 · OtherIGLESIA BUENAS NUEVASORMSBY HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH - BREAD OF LIFE: $25,000 · OtherORMSBY HEIGHTS BAPTIST CHURCH - BREAD OF LIFEST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES: $24,097 · OtherST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIESUNITED CRESCENT HILL MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · OtherOVERFLOW COMMUNITY CENTER: $19,052 · OtherTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $19,048 · OtherGRACE & GLORY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,000 · Other+8 more: $77,626 · Other+8 moreNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $100,173 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $77,510 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INCThe Hope Buss Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesThe Hope Buss IncSOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INCOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INCJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC: $10,352 · Human Services+1 more: $9,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC: $38,425 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR …Feed Louisville Inc: $38,000 · Food & NutritionFeed Louisv…HIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC: $10,555 · Food & NutritionHIGHPOINT C…SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $36,401 · Housing & ShelterHarrison County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc: $13,563 · HealthGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $10,000 · Employment
Other$439,337Human Services$297,035Food & Nutrition$86,980Housing & Shelter$36,401Health$13,563Employment$10,000

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 budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $100,173 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $77,510 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC: $38,425 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFeed Louisville Inc: $38,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $36,401 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hope Buss Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHarrison County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc: $13,563 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $11,310 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC: $10,555 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC: $10,352 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAPPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC: $9,000 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.

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…Metro United Way IncThe Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…Honorable Order of Ke…Mightycause Charitabl…Kosair Charities Comm…James Graham Brown Fo…Cralle Foundation IncBaird Foundation IncV V Cooke Foundation …
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY42× 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 · 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

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 Dare to Care Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dare to Care Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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, 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 35 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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