· Public charity
Legacy Foundation of Kentuckiana Inc
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $307k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+10 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPALDING UNIVERSITY | $301,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION | $269,211 |
| HOSPARUS HEALTH | $250,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC | $250,000 |
| RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $250,000 |
| PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE | $250,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MID-STATES INC | $250,000 |
| BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM | $250,000 |
| HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $200,000 |
| BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY KIDS CENTER | $150,000 |
| AMPED INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $2.8M) 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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 27 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- UMUNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $38M · revenue +53%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE2× · 2022–2025 · $700k · revenue +58%
- NDNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION2× · 2022–2024 · $675k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FHFLAGET HEALTH CARE INCone grant, 2022 · $2.2M · revenue +25%
- WEWest End Opportunity Partnershipone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -94%
- YAYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +26%
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.
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…
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.
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.…
Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Candy for Caring 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 71 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 MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLAGET HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SPALDING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds West End Opportunity Partnership ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASITA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds CANDY FOR CARING INC ↗
- Who funds Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FUND OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
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 Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation 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 Legacy Foundation of Kentuckiana 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.