· Public charity
Ipa Foundation
Provide for the well-being of children and their basic needs with a focus on children with exceptional medical requirements.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 33 grants below total $441,086 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $497,255 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,169 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| OPERATION BACKPACK4 KIDS I | $25,000 |
| ORLANDO HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRU | $20,000 |
| JOHN CLARKE PERRY CORPORAT | $15,000 |
| KIDS CANCER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| US PAIN FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| PROJECT CAMP INC | $15,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY | $15,000 |
| COMPASSION NEUROSCIENCE | $14,960 |
| HOPE HEALTH CLINIC | $14,349 |
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 (FY20–25, $273k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +74%
- KCKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +157%
- PCPROJECT CAMP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- FCFuego Corporationone grant, 2021 · $73k · revenue +12%
- SJST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $50k
- OHOrlando Health Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +43%
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.
Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foster and Heart. 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 37 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 95 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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WI Cook Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST TN ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Fuego Corporation ↗
- Who funds KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds ZIMKIDS ORPHAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEAT OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPREACH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Melodic Caring Project ↗
- Who funds MED-CAMPS OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BACKPACK 4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN CLARKE PERRY CORPORATION DBA JOHN CLARKE PERRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN EMERG HOUSING LLC ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds US PAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS KENTUCKY CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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 Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · Republic Bank 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 Ipa 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Health 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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