· Private foundation
Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of IRVIN F & ALICE S ETSCORN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yew Dell Bontancial Gaqrdens | $205,000 |
| Gilda's Club Kentuckiana | $105,000 |
| Hosparus Inc | $100,000 |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement House | $75,000 |
| Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve | $75,000 |
| Second Hope Ministries | $70,000 |
| Heuser Hearing Language Academy | $66,000 |
| Meredith-Dunn School | $66,000 |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $50,000 |
| Lincoln Heritage Council BSA | $50,000 |
| Home of the Innocents | $50,000 |
| Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies | $50,000 |
| Louisville Zoo | $50,000 |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens | $50,000 |
| New Life Directions Ministries | $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 (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- GCGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $849k · revenue +32%
- WBWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $650k · revenue +42%
- HIHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH5× · 2018–2025 · $475k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $125k
- YDYEW DELL INCone grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $33k
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.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
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…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
To assist individuals with special needs in meeting their full potential through interaction with horses.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
To provide comprehensive, integrated mental health, substance abuse, and mental retardation-developmental disability services that promote the health and quality of life of our community members.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Regional Science & Engineering Fair. 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 37 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
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 120 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 GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIORCARE EXPERTS INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC ↗
- Who funds Second Hope Ministeries Corporation ↗
- Who funds YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ACADEMY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds STORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds THE PRODUCERS 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 Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · 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 Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable 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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