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Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$444k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$980kHealth$683kInternational$472kEducation$375kReligion$375kYouth Development$155kAnimals$154kHuman Services$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$125,000
WHITE PONY EXPRESS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
BREAD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC$50,000
MISSION TEENS INC$30,000
MT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH$25,000
MEHER SPIRITUAL CENTER$20,000
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
FOLLOWING FRANCIS$20,000
PASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER$15,000
AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND$10,000
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC$5,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHOWER UP: $6k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $5k → 8%SHOWER UP: $5k → 10%END SLAVERY TENNESSEE: $9k → 14%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $300k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $275k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $100k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $70k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $70k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $50k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $40k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $50k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $20k → 9%WESTEND TOKEN CLUB: $20k → 15%WESTEND TOKEN CLUB: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
NJ
CT
CA
UT
KY
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 25 repeat orgs$745k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
21

Total granted

$3.1M
$668k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+23%

Still filing today

64%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WP
    WHITE PONY EXPRESS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +161%
  • NH
    NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +115%
  • TI
    TOKEN III CLUB
    4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • FS
    FRIENDS SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +42%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue 0%
  • 2C
    21ST CENTURY PARKS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +23%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Health Care Without Harm

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…

Environment
2
Evergreen Recovery Centers

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…

Health
3
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals
4
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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5
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
6
Ncr At Home Health and Wellness

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—
7
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
8
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
9
Mary's Shelter

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.

Human Services
10
Second Chance Humane Society Inc

Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.

Animals
11
National Church Residences At Home Health and Wellness Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

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12
National Church Residences At Home Hospice Central Ohio

Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $480,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMISSION TEENS INC: $130,000 · OtherMISSION TEENS INCTOKEN III CLUB: $70,000 · OtherTOKEN III CLUBBREAD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER INC: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN: $45,000 · Other+22 more: $421,786 · Other+22 moreWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $975,000 · Human ServicesWHITE PONY EXPRESSWEST END TOKEN CLUB INC: $35,000 · Human Services+3 more: $25,250 · Human ServicesNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 · HealthNORTON HEALTHCA…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S …BEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC: $40,000 · HealthBEACON HOUSE AF…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthWOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL: $435,000 · InternationalWOMEN FORWARD…Save The Children Federation Inc: $22,000 · International+2 more: $15,000 · InternationalFRIENDS SCHOOL INC: $250,000 · EducationWALDORF SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $20,000 · EducationFRANCIS ON THE HILL IN WASHINGTON DC ONL: $165,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH THEATRE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $54,500 · AnimalsAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $35,800 · AnimalsKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · Animals
Other$1,266,786Human Services$1,035,250Health$521,000International$472,000Education$270,000Arts & Culture$210,000Animals$112,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $975,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetWOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL: $435,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $265,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS SCHOOL INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRANCIS ON THE HILL IN WASHINGTON DC ONL: $165,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTOKEN III CLUB: $70,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $54,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN: $45,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetBEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $35,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEST END TOKEN CLUB INC: $35,000 over 2y, 16% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $33,334 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWALDORF SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORSESENSING INC: $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetShower Up: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYALL SQUAD INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI KENTUCKY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW LEASH ON LIFE: $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…Honorable Order of Ke…Cralle Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Lift a Life Foundatio…Republic Bank Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Norton Foundation…Irvin F & Alice S Ets…Owsley Brown II Famil…
The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository IncKY24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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