· Private foundation
Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,773 |
| KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $1,773 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $1,773 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN IN | $1,773 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,773 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $1,773 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,773 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,773 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $1,773 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $1,773 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $1,773 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $1,625 |
| WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $1,625 |
| GEORGETOWN COLLEGE | $1,625 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $1,625 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 62% of your 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 +24% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
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
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +33%
BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +10%- TUTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +7%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMAone grant, 2021 · $2k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT HUNTSVILLEone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
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Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jefferson Community Technical College 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 83 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 40 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 KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRESCIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPALDING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Oakland City University ↗
- Who funds CENTRE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
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: John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · Woldenberg Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Charles G Pearl Scholarship Fund 006961 · Litchfield Memorial Student Loan Fund Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Fidelity Foundation
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 Flora Hornbeck Scholarship Tr 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
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.