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· Private foundation
KENNETH H & SARA M RENAU FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$67k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants
1
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of KENNETH H & SARA M RENAU FOUNDATION’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
2018
scholarship
2019
scholarshiplouisville
2020
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2021
—
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- SPALDING UNIVERSITY$25,000
- WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION$15,000
- HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$15,000
- ST JOHN CENTER$5,000
- THE HEALING PLACE$5,000
- SALVATION ARMY$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 14%. 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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$772k · 14 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
8
Total granted
$772k
$140k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+253%
Still filing today
57%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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
- THTHE HEALING PLACE4× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +14%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY2× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +302%
- WCWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION5× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOMEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- PLPETS4LIFE LOUISVILLEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +253%
- DTDARE TO CARE FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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Belhaven University
Belhaven university (belhaven) is a christian liberal arts university dedicated to excellence in christian higher education.
Education
2
Northcentral University
The organization is a post-secondary level educational institution.
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3
Kentucky Christian University
Higher education for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions.
Education
4
University of Louisville Real Estate
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey property (see schedule o) for the benefit of the university of louisville.
Philanthropy
5
Southern Wesleyan University
Challenging students to be dedicated scholars and leaders who impact the world for Christ.
Education
6
Tennessee Wesleyan University
Four-year liberal arts college
Education
7
Northeastern Seminary
Rooted in biblical and historic christian faith, northeastern seminary prepares christ-centered men and women for faithful, effective ministry to the church and world.
Education
8
North Carolina State University
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
Education
9
William Peace University
Prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow.
Education
10
Norwich University
Norwich's mission is to give our youth an education that shall be american in its character.
Education
11
Benedict College
Benedict college will be a power for good in society. the college is a full opportunity college with high quality programs of teaching, research, and public service. these programs provide the students and community with knowledge, skills,…
Education
12
Washington and Lee University
See schedule owashington and lee university provides a liberal arts education to approximately 1,800 undergraduate students & offers jd & llm studies to approximately 400 law students each year.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St John Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northeastern University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$657,490Education$86,250Housing & Shelter$65,000Human Services$60,000Animals$33,095Civil Rights$10,000
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.
V V Cooke Foundation CorporationKY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · The Community Foundation Of · Baird Foundation Inc · Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc · Elite Homes Charitable Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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 KENNETH H & SARA M RENAU 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.
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: HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 611192061 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, 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
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% 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 Kenneth H & Sara M Renau Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Kenneth H & Sara M Renau Foundation 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.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines