· Private foundation
Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc
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 $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| WHITE PONY EXPRESS | $50,000 |
| MISSION TEENS INC | $30,000 |
| MT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| FOLLOWING FRANCIS | $20,000 |
| MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER | $20,000 |
| PASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER | $15,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN CENTER INC | $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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- WPWHITE PONY EXPRESS9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +161%
- NHNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +115%
- TITOKEN III CLUB4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FSFRIENDS SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +42%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue 0%
- 2C21ST CENTURY PARKS INCone grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +23%
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.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
To facilitate health and recovery for persons affected by alcoholism and other drug addiction through a comprehensive array of services, including residential and outpatient treatment, therapeutic daycare, parenting, detoxification, and…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shower Up. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 51 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 WHITE PONY EXPRESS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS ON THE HILL IN WASHINGTON DC ONL ↗
- Who funds TOKEN III CLUB ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds BEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WEST END TOKEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WALDORF SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HORSESENSING INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Shower Up ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACCESSIBLE LIVING ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA 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 Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Norton Foundation Inc · Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation · Owsley Brown II Family 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 Hearts Path 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 27% 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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