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Le Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$223k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.4MReligion$501kInternational$30kFood & Nutrition$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kHuman Services$14kHealth$13kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $140k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOHN VIANNEY$140,000
ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH$30,000
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
ST AMBROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$4,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF LOUISVILLE$3,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$2,000
ST JOHN CENTER FOR HOMELESS MEN$2,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$2,000
INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC MIGRATION COMMISSION$1,000
THE MARIST BROTHERS$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
FUND FOR VOCATIONS$1,000
PRIESTS FOR LIFE$1,000
CLARITY SOLUTIONS$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

US giving: 42% of grant dollars ($851k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 58% that went abroad ($1.2M) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%UNBOUND: $920 → 16%UNBOUND: $900 → 16%UNBOUND: $460 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
DC
AL
FL

Beyond the US: 58% of all-years giving ($1.2M)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Vietnam$1.2M · 8 grants
British Virgin Islands$500 · 1 grant
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 41 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
25

Total granted

$2.0M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+2%

Still filing today

41%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEducationHealthReligionCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CE
    CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $21k · revenue +61%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +25%
  • Feeding America
    7× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • TA
    TRI AN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -37%
  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LOUISVILLE
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • EW
    ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +41%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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4
Ascension Health Global Mission

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…

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5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
6
Ascension Health Alliance

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…

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7
Ascension Health

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…

Health
8
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
9
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
10
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
11
Association of Catholic Colleges and University

The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…

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12
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tri an Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,159,779 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOHN VIANNEY: $225,000 · OtherST JOHN VIANNEYST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $164,708 · OtherST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCHPARTNERS IN HEALTH (BENEFIT UGHE): $80,000 · OtherST JAMES CHURCH: $70,250 · Other+46 more: $118,164 · Other+46 moreUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,550 · Education+3 more: $6,500 · EducationFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $14,500 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $3,500 · International+3 more: $400 · InternationalSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $3,000 · HealthHEARTLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $3,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $2,000 · HealthFeeding America: $5,300 · Food & NutritionPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $5,300 · Youth Development
Other$1,817,901Education$147,050International$18,400Housing & Shelter$9,000Health$8,000Food & Nutrition$5,300Youth Development$5,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $5,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRIESTS FOR LIFE: $5,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $3,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound: $3,320 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHEARTLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC: $1,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF POLICE AND CONCERNED CITIZENS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSusan B Anthony List Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION COSTA RICA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds PRIESTS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds TRI AN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
  • Who funds Unbound ↗
  • Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MATER ECCLESIAE FUND FOR VOCATIONS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…T Rowe Price Program …The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Raymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository IncKY15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Le Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Le Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home