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Indigo Foundation
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
- $50k–250k5 grants · $500k
- $250k+8 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION GREATER LOUISVILLE INC | $750,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST (OPTIMUS FOUNDATION) | $600,000 |
| JEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| FAMILY COMMUNITY CLINIC INC | $500,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MID-STATES INC | $266,666 |
| 21ST CENTURY PARKS ENDOWMENT INC | $250,000 |
| U-GO INITIATIVE | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $250,000 |
| WATERSTEP INC | $200,000 |
| 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC | $100,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC | $100,000 |
| DARE TO CARE INC | $50,000 |
| SIMMONS COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- UIU-GO INITIATIVE3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +118%
- FCFamily Community Clinic Inc2× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +188%
- RTROOM TO READ4× · 2018–2021 · $600k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- EIEVOLVE502 INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -19%
- KFKY FINANCE & ADMIN CABINETone grant, 2021 · $250k
- TBTOWN BRANCH FUNDone grant, 2018 · $250k
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.
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…
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
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 conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To foster a sustainable network of community health workers and to train frontline public health professionals who possess a deep understanding of and strong ties to the local community.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Hill Therapy Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 21ST CENTURY PARKS ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds U-GO INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Simmons College of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC BOX INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds SOS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds Green Hill Therapy Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS LOUISVILLE 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 Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Taylor Family Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn 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 Indigo 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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