How much did JUDGE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of JUDGE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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

2021

childreneducation housing

2022

booksshelterchildrenfighteducation housing

2023

trainingparkfight

2024

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

03FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $11k
$10k–50k15 grants · $352k
$50k–250k1 grant · $61k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

GIVE FOR GOOD LOUISVILLE$61,106
KY LIONS EYE FOUNDATION$40,363
HARBOR HOUSE$40,000
FEED LOUISVILLE$36,300
WATERSTEP$30,000
NH BOOK & LITERACY$30,000
JRDF (JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION)$25,000
NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
BLOC MINISTRIES LOUISVILLE LLC$25,000
DOWN SYNDROME OF LOUISVILLE$20,000
STEVEN VANOVER MEMORIAL RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP FUND$20,000
ST RAPHAEL THE ARCHANGEL$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE$15,000
FRANCISCAN KITCHEN$10,000
GO MINISTRIES$10,000

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 (FY21–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 89% 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$861k · 26 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$861k

$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+364%

Still filing today

58%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Food & NutritionHuman ServicesReligionHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

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WATERSTEP
3× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +97%
FL
FEED LOUISVILLE
4× · 2021–2024 · $68k · revenue +31%
SV
STEVEN VANOVER MEMORIAL RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP FUND
4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +55%

Funded once

KN
KIDS NEED TO READ
one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -47%
SV
ST VINCENT DE PAUL LOUISVILLE
one grant, 2022 · $5k
TF
TOYS FOR TOTS
one grant, 2021 · $2k

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 Harvest Inc

To end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers (see schedule o) to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.

Food & Nutrition

University of Louisville Athletic Association

The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony…

Recreation & Sports

Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville

Health

Wilderness Louisville Inc

We are stewards of natural areas and champions of nature education, recreation, and youth. our mission is to provide and sustain quality natural spaces in louisville and ensure there is equitable access for the community.

Environment

Louisville Nature Center Inc

The mission of the louisville nature center is to be a catalyst for conservation through environmental education and connection to nature for every person.

Environment

Heart of Kentucky United Way Inc

Heart of kentucky united way advances the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all.

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Feeding Kentucky Inc

To end hunger in collaboration with kentucky's feeding america food banks and partners, through advocacy and resource development.

Food & Nutrition

United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy

Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Louisville public media (lpm) is an independent, community-supported nonprofit serving our community on the web, on the radio, through podcasts and community events. lpm includes three public radio stations and an investigative unit.

Arts & Culture

Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit

Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International

Louisville Bar Foundation Inc

To raise and distribute funds in the form of grants to not-for-profit organizations in the Louisville area that provide legal services to the poor and disadvantaged, conduct programs to educate citizens about the law, and support…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue. 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 31 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/22

the rest of the field

14%

2,980/21,310

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

21 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)

21/21

Grantees still filing

17/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$733,329Youth Development$100,200Food & Nutrition$74,346Health$55,000Religion$42,500Human Services$24,046Education$12,000

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 Community Foundation OfKY32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: STEVEN VANOVER MEMORIAL RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +55% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 473499843 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 STEVEN VANOVER MEMORIAL RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP FUND, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Judge Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Judge Family Foundation Inc 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.

JUDGE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Judge Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

JUDGE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Judge Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph