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Habdank Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$109k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$38,147
Organizations funded a year
11 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Habdank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$109k26%
FY202315$63k13%
FY202214$69k7%
FY202115$71k33%
FY202013$60k31%
FY201911$80k18%
FY201820$73k35%
FY201717$68kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$141kReligion$70kInternational$37kArts & Culture$27kHealth$23kFood & Nutrition$23kHousing & Shelter$18kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
MD
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church$69,7508n/a
The Healing Place Inc$31,50070%
Dare to Care Inc$23,00050%
The Louisville Orchestra Inc$22,00070%
Waterstep Inc$15,00080%
Education for All Children$8,20270%
One World Childrens Fund$7,50030%
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$6,00020%
21st Century Parks Inc$3,50040%
Lincoln Foundation$3,50020%
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All grantees of Habdank Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church$69,7508n/a
The Healing Place Inc$31,50070%
Dare to Care Inc$23,00050%
The Louisville Orchestra Inc$22,00070%
Waterstep Inc$15,00080%
Education for All Children$8,20270%
One World Childrens Fund$7,50030%
Opportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us$6,00020%
21st Century Parks Inc$3,50040%
Lincoln Foundation$3,50020%
Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc$3,00030%
West End School Inc$3,00010%
Zoom Group Inc$1,7502n/a
Scotland Storm Community Development Inc$1,30020%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,00010%
Twin City Sports Association Inc$1,0001n/a
Elephant Cooperation$50010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$50010%
Duke University$50010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$36020%
Engineering World Health$32310%
Hildegard House Incorporated$30010%
Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society$3001n/a
Colorectal Cancer Alliance$15010%
American Heart Association Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($390k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Habdank Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Healing Place Inc: $31,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDare to Care Inc: $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louisville Orchestra Inc: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWaterstep Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEducation for All Children: $8,202 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOpportunity International Inc D/B/A Opportunity International-Us: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget21st Century Parks Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWaterfront Botanical Gardens Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWest End School Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScotland Storm Community Development Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElephant Cooperation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEngineering World Health: $323 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHildegard House Incorporated: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorectal Cancer Alliance: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

The Gheens Foundation IncKY21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Habdank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Habdank Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Habdank Foundation

How much does Habdank Foundation give?
Habdank Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $109,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Habdank Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Religion (12%), International (6%).
Who are Habdank Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church ($70k), The Healing Place Inc ($32k), Dare to Care Inc ($23k).
Does Habdank Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Habdank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Habdank Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation, V V Cooke Foundation Corporation.
Where is Habdank Foundation based?
Habdank Foundation is based in KY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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