How much did IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

rights librarypediatricreplacenaming rightsbuildingroom

2020

serverexpandfirefoodhousingmedicalmake

2021

buildhvacfurnishingteachingvirtualcomputerglass

2022

boardsmaintenancewestroofpurchase vanplayreplace

2023

led fixturesdeckpurchase appliancesclassroom renovationsreplacebuildinglouisville

2024

castleinvestmentfencebencheslobbyflooringupgrades

2025

fencetransportationdecklobbyrenovationplayrenovations

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $71k
$10k–50k25 grants · $420k
$50k–250k11 grants · $900k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants

Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve$210,000
Yew Dell Bontancial Gaqrdens$170,000
Gilda's Club Kentuckiana$90,000
Yew Dell Botanical Gardens$80,000
Children's Hospital Foundation$50,000
Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies$50,000
Waterfront Botanical Gardens$50,000
Home of the Innocents$50,000
Louisville Zoo$50,000
Gilda's Club$50,000
Lincoln Heritage Council BSA$50,000
The Producers Inc$36,000
University of Louisville - Honors P$30,000
Cabbage Patch Settlement House$29,000
YMCA Camp Piomingo$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $993k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.2M · 70 repeat orgs$717k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.2M

$386k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+85%

Still filing today

44%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

GC
Gilda's Club of Louisville
7× · 2018–2024 · $609k · revenue +37%
WB
Waterfront Botanical Gardens
4× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +80%
HI
Hosparus Inc
4× · 2018–2023 · $375k · revenue +26%

Funded once

LC
Lions Camp Crescendograduated
one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +478%
FU
Future UP - Tully Elementary School
one grant, 2019 · $33k
VI
Visually Impaired Preschool Servise
one grant, 2022 · $30k

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

04Your field

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.

Kentucky Center for Special

Providing preschool services to children of all abilities including those diagnosed wth autism and other developmental disabilities.

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Kvc Behavioral Healthcare Kentucky Inc

To enrich and enhance the lives of children and their families by providing medical and behavioral healthcare, social services and education.

Health

Hospice of Hope Inc

Hospice of hope is an organization devoted to caring for the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill individuals and their families. the organization also provides for an assisted living facility in…

Human Services

Chrysalis House Inc

Chrysalis house is kentucky's oldest and largest licensed residential treatment for women with substance use disorders. established in 1978, with a mission to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance…

Health

Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health

Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc

To provide patient-centered medical care to the seriously ill and their families; engage in community partnerships, education and counseling.

Human Services

Healing Reins of Kentucky Inc

To assist individuals with special needs in meeting their full potential through interaction with horses.

Health

Lifehouse Inc

Provide for the needs of pregnant and/or parenting teens and women and their children.

Housing & Shelter

Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus of Kentucky

Care of nursing home residents residential and infirmary levels of care

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Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc

A trauma-informed Healthcare Organization, CHNK Behavioral Health creates Holistic Partnerships for Health and Wellness that are inclusive, innovative and inspiring.

Human Services

Indiana United Methodist Children's

To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…

Human Services

Actors Theatre of Louisville Inc

To promote the advancement of theatrical arts.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speed Art Museum. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/46

the rest of the field

12%

521/4,233

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.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

36/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,368,000Human Services$1,043,200Environment$600,000Health$536,000Youth Development$138,000Arts & Culture$133,500Education$62,000

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.

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.

The Gheens Foundation IncKY66.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · The Community Foundation Of · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Lift a Life 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 organisation IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Producers Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311027597 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The Producers Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 36% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn?

Find your warmest path to Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn?

More from the funding graph

IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn?

More from the funding graph