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Evolve502 Inc

We will provide the caring, belief, access, and supports each student needs to achieve and succeed and will work to remove and mitigate the systemic barriers of poverty and institutional racism.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.9MHuman Services$235kYouth Development$112kReligion$48kRecreation & Sports$35kCommunity Improvement$35kHealth$27kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $126k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$1,426,874
Median grant
1
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM$1,426,874
SIMMONS COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY$125,800
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 (FY20–20, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $112k → 15%THE CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $12k → 15%FIRST GETHSEMANE CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $12k → 15%2NOT1 FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES INC: $10k → 15%FATHER MALONEY'S BOYS HAVEN INC DBA BOYS & GIRLS HAVEN: $10k → 15%STEAM EXCHANGE: $10k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Evolve502 Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 86%.

Evolve502 Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
Louisville Youth Group Inc

LYG empowers QTBIPoC/LGBTQIA+ youth to grow into healthy and resilient leaders through community connection, life skills education, and social advocacy.

Civil Rights
2
Thrive By 5 Louisville Inc

Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.

Education
3
Dream Center Academy Christian School Inc

Provide educational excellence and educational choice in Christ for children living in the West End of Louisville, KY that gives them tools to thrive in todays world not just survive!

Education
4
Youth Life Foundation of Tennessee Inc

Youth life is a christ-centered service providing distinctive personalized academic & life skills that develops tomorrow's leaders.

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5
Guiding Light Mentoring

Mentoring organization dedicated to servicnt your ages 8-18 in the greater cincinnati area by providing positive roel models, teaching relationship skills, and developing

Youth Development
6
Stl Youth Jobs

Our mission is to bridge the divide between our regions youth and the growing skills gap in our workforce. we envision a city where our youth have the opportunity they need to succeed, and our businesses have the workforce they need to…

Youth Development
7
Educational Justice Inc

Educational justice strives to end educational inequity by pairing a 5th-8th grade student with a high-achieving high school student for long-term academic mentorship aimed at both improving academic performance and providing a meaningful…

Education
8
Hope Ignites Cincinnati

Hope Ignites Cincinnati nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…

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9
Southern Indiana Mentoring Academy 100 Inc

Provide mentoring activities to empower at-risk youth in our community to make positive life choices, enabling them to maximize their personal potential.

Youth Development
10
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
11
Little Thinkers Inc

Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.

Human Services
12
South Carolina Empowerment Centre

SCEC launched to address the increasing challenges facing youth along with their families in generational poverty by providing support mentorship and services that encourage youth to realize their full potential.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Somali Community 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.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $3,632,837 · OtherJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE+23 more: $295,850 · Other+23 moreSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $125,800 · EducationI Would Rather Be Reading: $20,200 · EducationSkillz 4 Life Inc: $12,100 · EducationYoung Nonprofit Foundation Young Nonprofit: $12,100 · EducationSomali Community Of Louisville Inc: $12,100 · EducationSowing Seeds with Faith Inc: $12,100 · EducationNEW DAY MINISTRIES INC: $9,600 · EducationDECODE PROJECT INC: $9,600 · Educationthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $112,350 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $15,100 · Human ServicesFIRST GETHSEMANE CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $12,100 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $12,100 · Human ServicesHOPE COLLABORATIVE CHRISTIAN COMMUN: $12,100 · Human ServicesMOLO VILLAGE CDC CO: $10,600 · Human Services2NOT1 FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES: $9,600 · Human ServicesTIGER FOUNDATION INC: $9,600 · Human ServicesFATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC: $9,600 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $9,600 · Human ServicesSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $15,100 · HealthSMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP: $12,100 · HealthINSIDE THE LINES TRAINING INC: $12,100 · Youth DevelopmentJ E B STUDENT ATHLETE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $12,100 · Youth DevelopmentROBERT JAMISON MINISTRIES: $13,100 · ReligionLIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC: $10,600 · ReligionWESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13,100 · Recreation & SportsLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $9,600 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,928,687Education$213,600Human Services$212,750Health$27,200Youth Development$24,200Religion$23,700Recreation & Sports$22,700

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 budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $125,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $112,350 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $56,400 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetI Would Rather Be Reading: $20,200 over 1y, 21% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $15,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $15,100 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOLAR INSTITUTE INC: $13,350 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPROMINENT YOUTH OF AMERICA: $12,600 over 1y, 33% of budgetDELTA FOUNDATION INC: $12,100 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetINSIDE THE LINES TRAINING INC: $12,100 over 1y, 19% of budgetSMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP: $12,100 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFIRST GETHSEMANE CENTER FOR FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $12,100 over 1y, 12% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $12,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSomali Community Of Louisville Inc: $12,100 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHOPE COLLABORATIVE CHRISTIAN COMMUN: $12,100 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWEST LOUISVILLE PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY INC: $12,100 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSowing Seeds with Faith Inc: $12,100 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC: $11,100 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMOLO VILLAGE CDC CO: $10,600 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC: $10,600 over 1y, 1.9% of budget2NOT1 FATHERHOOD & FAMILIES: $9,600 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC: $9,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $9,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $9,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW DAY MINISTRIES INC: $9,600 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $9,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDECODE PROJECT INC: $9,600 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $7,100 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Metro United Way IncThe Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…Kosair Charities Comm…Honorable Order of Ke…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Cralle Foundation IncJames Graham Brown Fo…C E and S Foundation …Republic Bank Foundat…
Metro United Way IncKY66.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Metro United Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Republic Bank 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 Evolve502 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Evolve502 Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    14report 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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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