· Private foundation
Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $453k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNTITY FOUNDATION OF SI | $125,000 |
| FAMILY ARK | $75,000 |
| EASTSIDE PRAISE CHURCH | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| HOMELESS COALITION OF SI | $50,000 |
| GENESIS HOUSE | $50,000 |
| CATALYST RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CLARK FLOYD | $30,000 |
| CHOICES LIFE RESOURCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| CLARK FLOYD SYSTEM OF CARE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FALLS OF THE OHIO FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $491k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +44% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 13 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k 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
- CICHILDPLACE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $135k · revenue +40%
- FAFAMILY ARK INC5× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +132%
- CFCENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $250k
- RHRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +673%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SIone grant, 2018 · $120k
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.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Casi's mission is to guide and empower families and communities to reach self-sufficiency and improved well-being, by addressing the root causes of poverty.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
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.
Inspiring life journeys
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
The construction and renovation of homes for low income families.
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
Indiana family to family (inf2f) is a unique statewide family-led organization that provides information, training, and peer support to caregivers of children and youth with special health care needs (cyshcn) and the professionals who…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clark County Youth Shelter and Family Se and the most unlike its peers is Clark County Museum. 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 182 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 RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ARK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FALLS OF THE OHIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Harrison County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY KITCHEN 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: Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Floyd Memorial Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Lift a Life 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 Hazel & Walter Bales Foundation 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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