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Fourevergreen Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$465k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$1.8MHealth$900kYouth Development$865kAnimals$710kPhilanthropy$301kHuman Services$235kRecreation & Sports$126kFood & Nutrition$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $730k
  • $250k+1 grant · $465k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANCHORAGE PUBLIC SCHOOL$465,000
PAWS WITH PURPOSE$150,000
KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC$110,000
MBC ACADEMY INC$100,000
SACRED HEART SCHOOLS INC$98,094
EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE$95,000
ANGLO-AMERICAN CHAR FDN$77,000
21ST CENTURY PARKS INC$50,000
NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$50,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKY$25,000
FLIGHT CLUB 502$25,000
DAY SPRING FOUNDATION INC$25,000
FIRST CAR PROJECT INC$25,000
VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC$25,000
ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC$22,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FIRST CAR PROJECT INC: $25k → 4%FIRST CAR PROJECT INC: $25k → 4%THE ARROW FUND INC: $50k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%PAWS WITH PURPOSE: $150k → 15%PAWS WITH PURPOSE: $100k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $75k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 13 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

77%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $415k · revenue +16%
  • VC
    VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $335k · revenue +39%
  • KC
    KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • LG
    Louisville Grows Incorporated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -36%
  • KH
    KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue +69%
  • FS
    FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $110k · revenue +198%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc

Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…

Health
2
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.

Crime & Legal
3
Children's Alliance Incorporated

Shape public policy and practice to improve the well-being of kentucky's at-risk children and families through advocacy, leadership, collaboration, and education.

—
4
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
5
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
6
Kids Chance of Kentucky Inc

Provide educational scholarships to children of kentucky workers who have been seriously or fatally injured in work related accidents.

Education
7
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
8
Child Development Center Corporation

To provide kdmc team members and members of the community the convenience of an exceptional child development center that promotes physical, emotional, intellectual, and social growth in a christian values-based environment, supporting the…

Human Services
9
Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc

The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.

Community Improvement
10
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc

Support for Markey Cancer Center Hospital building expansion and research projects.

—
11
Kids Home Care Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…

Health
12
Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws With Purpose 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr16%7%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr14%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr16%3%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr14%19%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
14%
703/4,970

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
15/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN — $675,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS HAVENANCHORAGE PUBLIC SCHOOL — $545,000 · OtherANCHORAGE PUBLIC SCHOOLGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC — $415,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INCVIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC — $335,000 · OtherVIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INCSACRED HEART SCHOOLS INC — $240,705 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLS INCKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $110,000 · OtherFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC — $109,691 · OtherKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $100,000 · Other+10 more — $440,500 · Other+10 morePAWS WITH PURPOSE INC — $550,000 · Human ServicesPAWS WITH PURPOS…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOU…FIRST CAR PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFIRST CAR PROJEC…THE ARROW FUND INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARROW FUND I…CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SE…KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $244,800 · EducationKENTUCKY COUNT…MBC Academy Inc The Mills Academy — $200,000 · EducationMBC Academy In…EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC — $170,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL JU…DECODE PROJECT INC — $80,000 · EducationDECODE PROJECT…HOPE SCARVES INC — $215,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Health+2 more — $20,000 · HealthANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD — $250,000 · PhilanthropyDAY SPRING FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $500 · PhilanthropyInternational Rescue Committee INC — $65,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $35,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $35,000 · InternationalLouisville Grows Incorporated — $125,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,970,896Human Services$775,000Education$694,800Health$385,000Philanthropy$300,500International$135,000Food & Nutrition$125,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPAWS WITH PURPOSE INC — $550,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC — $415,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetVIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC — $335,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD — $250,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetKENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $244,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE SCARVES INC — $215,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetMBC Academy Inc The Mills Academy — $200,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC — $170,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetLouisville Grows Incorporated — $125,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $110,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC — $109,691 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDECODE PROJECT INC — $80,000 over 1y, 22% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST CAR PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ARROW FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetThe American Youth Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAY SPRING FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Republic Bank Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Cralle Foundation IncThe Gheens Foundation…Mightycause Charitabl…Honorable Order of Ke…Brown-Forman Foundati…Lift a Life Foundatio…Sociable Weaver Found…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY42.9× 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 · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver 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 Fourevergreen 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fourevergreen Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fourevergreen Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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