· Private foundation
Judge Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $361k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $52,000 |
| GIVE FOR GOOD LOUISVILLE | $47,490 |
| LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA | $35,140 |
| STEVEN VANOVER FOUNDATION | $32,830 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE - ATHLETICS | $31,500 |
| CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES | $30,000 |
| FRANCISCAN KITCHEN | $23,000 |
| WATERSTEP | $21,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $20,000 |
| BLOC MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| OH SHE BUILT THAT | $10,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AU OPEN BECK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL LOUISVILLE | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 16 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k 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
- WIWATERSTEP INC4× · 2021–2025 · $121k · revenue +98%
- FLFeed Louisville Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +31%
- SVSTEVEN VANOVER FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $30k
- J(JRDF (JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION)one grant, 2024 · $25k
- DSDown Syndrome of Louisville Incone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.
Identify, mobilize, and fund programs to address louisville's greatest challenges regarding business growth and increased economic prosperity for all citizens in the greater louisville region.
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.
Lhome is a mission-driven, nonprofit financial institution that provides accessible, affordable loan products and financial coaching services to low-income small business owners, homeowners, and residents of louisville, kentucky. lhome is…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steven Vanover Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 62 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 WATERSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds Feed Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds STEVEN VANOVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds University of Louisville Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Down Syndrome of Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY WATERWAYS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS NEED TO READ ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Norton Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Louisville Grows Incorporated ↗
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 · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · C E and S 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 Judge Family Foundation Inc 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.