· Private foundation
Kindred 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Kindred Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Middle Tennessee Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Kindred Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k34 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $914k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $163,698 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $161,100 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC | $152,500 |
| KINDRED EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FUND INC | $86,050 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $51,000 |
| METRO UNITED WAY | $50,000 |
| JEFFERSON COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL BSA | $25,000 |
| THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $10,150 |
| HABITAT HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| MEREDITH DUNN SCHOOL | $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 (FY20–25, $1.7M) 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $952k · revenue +13%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $747k · revenue +53%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue 0% · 27% of their budget
- LHLOUISVILLE HEALTHCARE CEO COUNCIL INCone grant, 2021 · $211k · revenue +61%
- SASPEED ART MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +18%
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.
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…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…
Our mission is to inspire curiosity and empower individuals to explore and experiment with science in all its forms. we embrace a "do science" philosophy: play, tinker, collaborate, test, experiment, learn from mistakes, and try again.…
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
Methodist health provides quality healthcare services with a compassionate and caring spirit to persons, families and communities of the tri-state. at methodist health, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Critical Care 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 39 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
115 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. 115 of the 173 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 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINDRED EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE HEALTHCARE CEO COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Yes4JCPS Inc ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HELP US GROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHERISH OUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY 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: Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation · Norton Healthcare Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Cralle 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 Kindred 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.
- Community Action Stops Abuse Inc — 13% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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