· Private foundation
Klig Charitable Trust
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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST END SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $10,000 |
| WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| YEW DELL GARDENS | $2,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE | $1,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FDN | $1,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC | $1,000 |
| IMPACT 100 LOUISVILLE INC | $1,000 |
| FIRST HOUR GRIEF RESPONSE | $1,000 |
| Rotary Foundation | $1,000 |
| WHITNEYSTRONG INC | $1,000 |
| PORTLAND PROMISE CENTER INC | $500 |
| TREES LOUISVILLE | $500 |
| OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY | $500 |
| PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE | $500 |
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 (FY22–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- CPCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +12%
- WBWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +78%
- ILIMPACT100 LOUISVILLE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- LMLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -46%
- 2C21ST CENTURY PARKS INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +21%
- KAKY ANNUAL CONFERENCE OFone grant, 2022 · $500
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.
Preserve, restore and operate locust grove, a national historic landmark
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
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.…
Legacy greenscapes, inc. mission is to provide continuing leadership and financial support to preserve legacy of and promote greenscapes located in the city of winchester, clark county, ky.
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
The louisville preservation fund,inc. revitalizes historic places through direct real estate action and partnerships to enhance community and promote economic development.
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 central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To preserve, maintain and operate the benjamin harrison presidential site, located in indianapolis, indiana as a national historic landmark by the us dept of the interior.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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 West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds FHGR INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FUND OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds TREESLOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COUNTRY CLUB ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds Gate of Hope Ministries Intl Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALS Network ↗
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 Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
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 Klig Charitable Trust 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.