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George and Mary Lee Duthie 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$3.1MEducation$1.2MEnvironment$1.1MHealth$585kReligion$525kPublic Benefit$240kAnimals$155kRecreation & Sports$125kFood & Nutrition$100kOther$1.6M
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $365k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRY INC$550,000
KIDS CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC THERAPIES$250,000
WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC$200,000
SAFE PASSAGE INC$150,000
POTTER'S WHEEL INC$150,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$100,000
WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION$100,000
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN SOCIETY$100,000
HONOR FLIGHT BLUEGRASS CHAPTER INC$100,000
DARE TO CARE$100,000
WEST END SCHOOL INC$100,000
21ST CENTURY PARKS INC$100,000
STORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INC$35,000
LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY$25,000
THE DREAM FACTORY INC$25,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $15k → 14%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $150k → 15%SAINT MARY'S CENTER: $100k → 15%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $100k → 15%SMC REGINA'S CENTER: $25k → 15%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $100k → 15%SAINT MARY'S CENTER: $25k → 15%DAY SPRING INC: $25k → 15%DAY SPRING: $25k → 15%WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $450k → 15%WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $400k → 15%WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $100k → 15%WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $100k → 15%WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $35k → 15%SCARLETT HOPE: $25k → 15%SCARLET HOPE INC: $25k → 15%SCARLET HOPE: $10k → 15%APRON INC: $10k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 24 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
12

Total granted

$7.0M
$578k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
-4%

Still filing today

92%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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 ServicesEducationPublic BenefitReligionAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NL
    NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +159% · 58% of their budget
  • WC
    WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +9%
  • WB
    WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • DC
    DREAM CENTER ACADEMY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $125k · revenue -24%
  • CM
    Christian Ministry Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -36%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT KENTUCKY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -12%

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
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
2
Central Louisville Community Ministries Inc

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.

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3
Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc

Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.

Environment
4
Hospice of Southern Kentucky Inc

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…

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5
Lifeline Recovery Center Inc

To provide a christian based recovery program for people with substance abuse problems

Human Services
6
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
7
Simon House Inc

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.…

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8
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
9
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
10
Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral

To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.

Health
11
Hospice of Hope Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usa Cares Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%7%<5yr17%20%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr11%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%2%<5yr17%28%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr11%5%35–55yr11%34%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
16%
3,800/23,549

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

37 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. 37 of the 48 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
15/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC — $1,370,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INCWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION — $1,085,000 · Human ServicesWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSIONSafe Passage Inc — $350,000 · Human ServicesSafe Passage IncSMC REGINA'S CENTER — $150,000 · Human Services+4 more — $140,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRY INC — $550,000 · OtherNEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINIS…ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN SOCIETY — $550,000 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN…HONOR FLIGHT BLUEGRASS — $100,000 · OtherSTORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INC — $85,000 · Other21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $100,000 · OtherDARE TO CARE INC — $100,000 · Other+19 more — $470,000 · Other+19 moreNEW DAY MINISTRIES INC — $591,312 · EducationNEW DAY MINISTR…West End School Inc — $255,020 · EducationWest End School…CITY SCHOOL INC — $150,000 · EducationCITY SCHOOL INCDREAM CENTER ACADEMY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $125,000 · EducationDREAM CENTER AC…+2 more — $47,900 · EducationWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $1,050,000 · EnvironmentWATERFRONT BO…Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc — $550,000 · HealthNatalie's Sisters Inc — $35,000 · HealthPOTTER'S WHEEL INC — $325,000 · ReligionChristian Ministry Alliance — $100,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $100,000 · ReligionHonor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc — $100,000 · Public BenefitHONOR FLIGHT KENTUCKY INC — $100,000 · Public BenefitWARRIOR 110 INCORPORATED — $40,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$3,095,000Other$1,955,000Education$1,169,232Environment$1,050,000Health$585,000Religion$525,000Public Benefit$240,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC — $1,370,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION — $1,085,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $1,050,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetNEW DAY MINISTRIES INC — $591,312 over 2y, 62% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc — $550,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetSafe Passage Inc — $350,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetPOTTER'S WHEEL INC — $325,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetWest End School Inc — $255,020 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSMC REGINA'S CENTER — $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCITY SCHOOL INC — $150,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetDREAM CENTER ACADEMY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $125,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetChristian Ministry Alliance — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHonor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT KENTUCKY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INC — $85,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetSCARLET HOPE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELLSPRING INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDAY SPRING INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUSA CARES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIOR 110 INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE — $37,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNatalie's Sisters Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOUISVILLE ZOO INC — $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHoly Angels Academy — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE LEOPARD PERCUSSIONISTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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 Gheens Foundation…Honorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…Cralle Foundation IncSnowy Owl Foundation …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Irvin F & Alice S Ets…V V Cooke Foundation …Baird Foundation IncMightycause Charitabl…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY44.2× affinity20 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 Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Baird 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 George and Mary Lee Duthie 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 48 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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