· Private foundation
Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $695k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL BSA | $35,000 |
| LITTLE SISTRERS OF THE POOR | $30,000 |
| HOME OF THE IONNOCENTS | $30,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $30,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRESCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $25,000 |
| YEW DELL BOTANICAL GARDENS | $25,000 |
| SECOND HOPE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE | $25,000 |
| KIDS CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC THERAPIES | $25,000 |
| CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE | $25,000 |
| CAROLE'S KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE3 | $25,000 |
| MERIDETH -DUNN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $210k) 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +165%
- WOWINGS OF REFUGE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +11%
- NANATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LLOUISVILLEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PWPAWS WITH A PURPOSEone grant, 2024 · $20k
- WSWAG S PET THERAPY OF KYone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
Our vision is of a community where those with and without disabilities learn to share and enrich each other's lives through meaningful interactions that cultivate mutual respect and unconditional love. our mission is to offer highly…
To empower individuals with disabilities and their families to lead fulfilled and productive lives. harbor house empowers individuals through employment, education, and community building opportunities.
Hospice of hope is an organization devoted to caring for the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill individuals and their families. the organization also provides for an assisted living facility in…
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
The organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…
Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.
L'arche syracuse, inc. is a faith based organization. our mission is to (1) make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relations, (2) foster an environment in community that…
Our vision is of a community where those with and without disabilities learn to share and enrich each other's lives through meaningful interactions that cultivate mutual respect and unconditional love. our mission is to offer highly…
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 119 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLE'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Second Hope Ministeries Corporation ↗
- Who funds CURE CF INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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