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Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $5,850 |
| TOWN BRANCH PARK | $5,000 |
| WILLIAM LAWRENCE & BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS | $2,200 |
| METRO UNITED WAY | $2,100 |
| GLEAN KENTUCKY INC | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $1,800 |
| ARTSWAVE | $1,300 |
| KYCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS | $950 |
| LEXARTS | $700 |
| AMPLIFY LOUISVILLE INC | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +13% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 17 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +13%
- WHWORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +119%
- LILEXARTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF LEXINGTONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- LRLyndon Recreation Association Incone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -21%
- CHCommonwealth Health Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +27%
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 improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.
Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.
Identify, mobilize, and fund programs to address louisville's greatest challenges regarding business growth and increased economic prosperity for all citizens in the greater louisville region.
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Commonwealth Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Lawrence and Blanche Hughes Foundation 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 76 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 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Lyndon Recreation Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM LAWRENCE AND BLANCHE HUGHES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CURE CF INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KENTUCKY YOUTH ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GLEAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RACE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds SCAPA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMPLIFY LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OF THE KENTUCKY SOCIETY OF CPAS 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · The Gheens 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 Dean Dorton Allen Ford Charitable Foundation 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.
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