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Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.7MHuman Services$1.5MYouth Development$1.4MEnvironment$1.3MEducation$1.2MAnimals$523kFood & Nutrition$455kRecreation & Sports$400kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yew Dell Bontancial Gaqrdens$205,000
Gilda's Club Kentuckiana$105,000
Hosparus Inc$100,000
Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve$75,000
Cabbage Patch Settlement House$75,000
Second Hope Ministries$70,000
Meredith-Dunn School$66,000
Heuser Hearing Language Academy$66,000
Home of the Innocents$50,000
Louisville Zoo$50,000
Lincoln Heritage Council BSA$50,000
Children's Hospital Foundation$50,000
New Life Directions Ministries$50,000
Waterfront Botanical Gardens$50,000
Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Lifeline Pilots: $3k → 14%ST MARY'S CENTER: $11k → 15%Hosparus Inc: $100k → 15%Hosparus Inc: $100k → 15%Hosparus Inc: $100k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $75k → 15%Hosparus Inc: $75k → 15%Hosparus Inc: $50k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $50k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $50k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $50k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $50k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $45k → 15%Hosparus Inc: $25k → 15%Hosparus Inc: $25k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $25k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $24k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $22k → 15%SCARLET HOPE: $21k → 15%Scarlet Hope: $13k → 15%Home of the Innocents: $10k → 15%Dress for Success Louisville: $8k → 15%Scarlet Hope: $5k → 15%Masonic Homes of Kentucky: $25k → 15%Masonic Homes of Kentucky: $5k → 15%Blessing in A Backpack: $15k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $5k → 15%West End Token Club: $5k → 15%West End Token Club: $5k → 15%Cabbage Patch Settlement House: $75k → 15%Cabbage Patch Settlement House: $65k → 15%Cabbage Patch Settlement House: $29k → 15%Cedar Lake Foundation: $25k → 15%Cedar Lake Foundation: $25k → 15%Cedar Lake Foundation: $15k → 15%CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%Cabbage Patch Settlement House: $12k → 15%Cedar Lake Foundation: $12k → 15%Cabbage Patch Settlement House: $10k → 15%Cabbage Patch Settlement House: $10k → 15%Derams with Wings: $5k → 15%Cabbage Patch Settlement House: $7k → 15%Dress for Success Louisville: $5k → 15%Second Hope Ministries: $70k → 15%Mom's Closet Resource Center: $5k → 15%Mom's Closet Resource Center: $5k → 15%Second Hope Ministries: $10k → 15%Mom's Closet Resource Center: $5k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 77 repeat orgs$664k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
37

Total granted

$9.8M
$621k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

61%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & 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

  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $849k · revenue +32%
  • WB
    WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $650k · revenue +42%
  • HI
    HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH
    5× · 2018–2025 · $475k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
  • YD
    YEW DELL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $33k
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
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
2
Day Spring Inc

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…

Human Services
3
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
4
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
5
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
6
Mur-Ci Homes Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Independent Living Options Inc

Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.

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8
Healing Reins of Kentucky Inc

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

Health
9
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Western Ky Regional Mental Health & Ment Dba Four Rivers Behavioral

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.

Health
11
Job Options Inc

To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.

Employment
12
HealthFirst Bluegrass Inc

Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; 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.
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 120 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
50/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $849,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INCLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $751,000 · OtherLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INCTHE LOUISVILLE ZOO: $480,000 · OtherTHE LOUISVILLE ZOOYew Dell Bontancial Gaqrdens: $375,000 · OtherYew Dell Bontancial GaqrdensCREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC: $375,000 · OtherCREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INCIndividual grant recipient: $338,000 · OtherNorton Children's Hospital Foundati: $310,000 · OtherVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $267,000 · OtherMEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC: $256,000 · OtherHeuser Hearing Language Academy: $220,500 · Other+68 more: $2,390,500 · Other+68 moreHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $475,000 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS INC HOS…THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $401,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE …CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $213,200 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SE…NEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE DIRECTI…CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesCEDAR LAKE FOUND…Second Hope Ministeries Corporation: $80,000 · Human Services+10 more: $173,000 · Human Services+10 moreTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $341,000 · HealthTHE CHILDR…Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $180,000 · HealthCerebral P…KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthKENTUCKY L…HOUSE OF RUTH INC: $65,000 · HealthHOUSE OF R…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $56,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WIS…Down Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $42,000 · Health+8 more: $144,000 · Health+8 moreWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $650,000 · EnvironmentYEW DELL INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentKENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureLOUISVILLE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $76,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsLIONS CAMP CRESCENDO: $36,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsMARYHURST INC: $168,000 · Youth Development
Other$6,612,000Human Services$1,562,200Health$978,000Environment$730,000Arts & Culture$235,500Recreation & Sports$191,000Youth Development$168,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $849,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC: $751,000 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $650,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $475,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $401,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC: $375,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $341,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $267,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC: $256,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $213,200 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetMARYHURST INC: $168,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEW LIFE DIRECTIONS MINISTRIES INC: $130,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSENIORCARE EXPERTS INC: $118,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetCEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC: $82,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetYEW DELL INC: $80,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSecond Hope Ministeries Corporation: $80,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetLOUISVILLE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $76,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $65,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTORMHAVEN YOUTH RANCH INC: $60,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $56,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRODUCERS INC: $53,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetCHRISTIAN CARE COMMUNITIES INC: $48,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC: $47,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetUSA CARES INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSCARLET HOPE INC: $39,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $38,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIONS CAMP CRESCENDO: $36,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetGreen Hill Therapy Inc: $31,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPAWS WITH PURPOSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFamily Community Clinic Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE LITTLE COLONEL PLAYERS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetMASONIC HOMES OF KENTUCKY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT CAMP INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetOhio Valley Educational Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLOUISVILLE REGIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR: $15,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% 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 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 YEW DELL INC ↗
  • Who funds Second Hope Ministeries Corporation ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Gheens Foundation…Honorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…Cralle Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…Kosair Charities Comm…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Whas Crusade for …V V Cooke Foundation …Republic Bank Foundat…
The Gheens Foundation IncKY92.7× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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

    Find your warmest path to Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation 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 120 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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