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Gelfenbein-Kaplan Charitable Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LOUISVILLE | $7,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI) LOUISVILLE | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| HOSPARUS HEALTH | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE - CONGREGATION ADATH ISRAEL BRITH SHOLOM | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $600 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOPSITAL | $500 |
| THE STRAZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $500 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FEEDING EMPTY LITTLE TUMMIES INC | $400 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS | $300 |
| THE HEALING PLACE | $250 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $200 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS KY | $100 |
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, $2k) 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue -18%
- TTTHE TEMPLE CONGREGATION ADATH ISREAL B RITH SHOLOM INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $1k
- MMSAAone grant, 2024 · $1k
- NBNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -14%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is The Glaucoma 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 41 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 27 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Uniting Partners for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding Empty Little Tummies Inc ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYDAY BLESSINGS 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: Charles L Weisberg Family Foundation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Harvey & Ruth Gelfenbein Charitable Foundation Inc · Julia & Isadore Klein Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 Gelfenbein-Kaplan Charitable 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.
- Everyday Blessings Inc — 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.
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