· Private foundation
Gardner Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Father John Judie Ministries Inc | $7,000 |
| Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc | $4,500 |
| River Fields Inc | $4,500 |
| Filson Historical Society | $4,000 |
| Kentucky Humane Society | $4,000 |
| Pa'ia Youth and Cultural Ctr | $4,000 |
| Kimokeo Foundation | $4,000 |
| Mission Wolf | $3,500 |
| Hosparus | $2,500 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $2,500 |
| Yew Dell Botanical Gardens | $2,000 |
| Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest | $2,000 |
| Trees Louisville | $2,000 |
| Second Stride Inc | $2,000 |
| Hildegard House | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
79 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- RFRIVER FIELDS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +30%
- KHKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +61%
- MWMISSION WOLF5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCES OF ROMEone grant, 2024 · $2k
- SXSt Xavier High Schoolone grant, 2021 · $1k
- PHPresentation High Schoolone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Legacy greenscapes, inc. mission is to provide continuing leadership and financial support to preserve legacy of and promote greenscapes located in the city of winchester, clark county, ky.
The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.
Kentucky natural lands trust works to protect, connect and restore wildlands with a commitment to safeguarding biodiversity, mitigating climate impacts and fostering healthy communities.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 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.
50 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. 50 of the 99 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 LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION WOLF ↗
- Who funds KIMOKEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FATHER JOHN JUDIE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds TREESLOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE ↗
- Who funds Dogs Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds SPALDING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR REHABILITATION OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds Old Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS 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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
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 Gardner Foundation Incorporated 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.
- Williams College — 0% 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.