· Private foundation
Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE | $1,450,000 |
| BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY | $1,000,000 |
| GULF STREAM SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC | $400,000 |
| ST FRANCIS IN THE FIELDS CHURCH | $250,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $100,000 |
| ST PAUL'S DELRAY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| MUHAMMAD ALI CENTER | $10,000 |
| WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $10,000 |
| SECOND STRIDE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $687k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +45% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- MAMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +3% · 47% of their budget
- WEWest End School Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +15%
- BLBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +537% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- MSMARTY STUART'S CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSICone grant, 2023 · $100k
- LMLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FDTNone grant, 2023 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -15%
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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…
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
Louisville ballet makes moving art that respects tradition, encourages innovation, and fosters life-long learning. we inspire connection, conversation and a profound sense of community, by striving for bold collaborations, by nurturing the…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 21ST Century Parks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jack Murphy Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 106 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 MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GULF STREAM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds Louisville Folk School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION 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 Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Lift a Life 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 Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund 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.
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bethesda Hospital Inc — 0% 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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