· Private foundation
Fred R & Opal S Woosley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of FRED R & OPAL S WOOSLEY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $695k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL BSA | $35,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $30,000 |
| HOME OF THE IONNOCENTS | $30,000 |
| LITTLE SISTRERS OF THE POOR | $30,000 |
| CAROLE'S KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| KIDS CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC THERAPIES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| VISUALLY IMPAIRED PRESCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| SECOND HOPE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE3 | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FDN | $25,000 |
| MERIDETH -DUNN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| YEW DELL BOTANICAL GARDENS | $25,000 |
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 (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 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.
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 0% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you 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
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
- WOWINGS OF REFUGE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +11%
- NANATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +7%
- WIWORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- LLOUISVILLEone grant, 2022 · $25k
- PWPAWS WITH A PURPOSEone grant, 2024 · $20k
- SHSTORM HAVEN YOUTH RANCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carole's Kitchen 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 120 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 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 CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds Second Hope Ministeries Corporation ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CURE CF 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: 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
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 Fred R & Opal S Woosley 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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