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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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$7.1MPhilanthropy$4.9MEducation$3.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.6MEnvironment$1.9MReligion$581kRecreation & Sports$406kHealth$355kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
$250,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SECOND STRIDE$10,000
WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $400k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $1k → 4%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $1k → 4%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $1k → 4%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $1k → 4%THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $20k → 15%THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $15k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS PLACE: $10k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS PLACE: $10k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS PLACE: $5k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS PLACE: $5k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDRENS PLACE: $5k → 15%WOMEN 4 WOMEN: $4k → 15%WOMEN 4 WOMEN: $2k → 15%WOMEN 4 WOMEN: $2k → 15%WOMEN 4 WOMEN: $2k → 15%WOMEN 4 WOMEN: $2k → 15%WATER WITH BLESSINGS: $1k → 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

WA
NY
MA
WY
OH
CT
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
MS
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 68 repeat orgs$724k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
34

Total granted

$19M
$614k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

74%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MA
    MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +3% · 47% of their budget
  • WE
    West End School Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +15%
  • BL
    BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +537% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • MS
    MARTY STUART'S CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • LM
    LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FDTN
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -15%
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
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
2
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Kentucky Bankers Association

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…

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5
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
6
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
7
Kentucky Dance Council Inc Dba Louisville Ballet

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…

Arts & Culture
8
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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9
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Harpeth Conservancy

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 21ST Century Parks Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
56/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $5,674,069 · Arts & CultureMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION…THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $835,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INCFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $305,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $151,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN RED CROSS: $2,900,200 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSUNITED WAY: $500,000 · OtherUNITED WAYST FRANCIS IN THE FIELDS CHURCH: $359,000 · OtherST FRANCIS IN THE FIELDS CH…CARDINAL ATHLETIC FUND: $200,000 · Other+57 more: $1,753,866 · Other+57 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $3,822,582 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…METRO UNITED WAY INC: $525,000 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED WAY INC+3 more: $20,250 · PhilanthropyWest End School Inc: $1,660,000 · EducationWest End School In…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $650,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUN…GULF STREAM SCHOOL INC: $620,160 · EducationGULF STREAM SCHOOL…KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $550,000 · EducationKENTUCKY COUNTRY D…BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $125,000 · Education+5 more: $144,050 · EducationBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,557,500 · Environment+9 more: $118,000 · EnvironmentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $35,000 · Human Services+3 more: $17,000 · Human ServicesKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $27,000 · Recreation & Sports21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $26,000 · Recreation & SportsLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $21,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$6,965,069Other$5,713,066Philanthropy$4,367,832Education$3,749,210Environment$1,675,500Human Services$687,000Recreation & Sports$244,000

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 budgetMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $5,674,069 over 7y, 47% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $3,822,582 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetWest End School Inc: $1,660,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,557,500 over 7y, 33% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $835,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGULF STREAM SCHOOL INC: $620,160 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $550,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $525,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $305,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $121,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBethesda Hospital Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP: $96,666 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetLouisville Folk School: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS: $50,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERRY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Ships International: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $19,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetRIVER FIELDS INC: $14,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetWOMEN 4 WOMEN INC: $12,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetTHE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND STRIDE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 Bethesda Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP ↗
  • Who funds Louisville Folk School ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS ↗
  • Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗

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…W L Lyons Brown Found…The Gheens Foundation…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Honorable Order of Ke…Owsley Brown II Famil…Sociable Weaver Found…Lift a Life Foundatio…Mightycause Charitabl…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY77.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund 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 106 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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