· Private foundation
Ldg Development Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR RESOURCES & EMPOWERMENT INC | $2,397,000 |
| EVOLVE502 INC | $50,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +138% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- FLFeed Louisville Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $3.2M · revenue +31% · 46% of their budget
- CACOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR RESOURCES & EMPOWERMENT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +550% · 98% of their budget
- EIEVOLVE502 INC5× · 2020–2024 · $203k · revenue +215%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
- DBDOUGLAS BLVD CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $83k
- DTDARE TO CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +31%
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 create positive impact in housing and economic development, while helping families to have access to affordable, quality housing within our historic urban neighborhoods.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.
New directions creates and preserves homes, fosters community stability and supports families on their path to economic success.
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.…
The mission of CLOUT is to solve serious community problems by bringing together diverse religious congregations predominantly in low-to-middle income communities of Louisville for leadership training and taking unified action.
The mission of Greater Louisville Behavioral Health is to provide services surrounding behavioral health and substance abuse, especially to those in the criminal justice system
To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.
Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.
Lifewell aims to provide hope and recovery through our person-centered residential, outpatient, housing and community living programs. we provide integrated healthcare services to low-income adults with behavioral and physical illness and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Adult Development in Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Four Corners Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 Feed Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR RESOURCES & EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Four Corners Mission ↗
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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Metro United Way 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 Ldg Development 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.
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