· Private foundation
Leight M Wilson 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNRISE CHILDRENS'S SERVICE | $10,000 |
| SUMARITIANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| PRAIRIE VIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $5,700 |
| RAVINA PARK BAPTIST CHURCH | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORG | $2,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HARVEY BROWNE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| LITTLE FLOCK BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,250 |
| W E BLOOM RECOVERY CAFE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $9k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 12 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TWTHE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +139%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +134%
- SKSALLY KATE WINTERS FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TRTORNADO RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
- FCFIFTY CLUB OF BOONE COone grant, 2018 · $2k
- BCBARREN CO EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
The hospice mission is to honor life through exceptional service and compassionate care. the organization is primarily engaged in providing care and support that enables the terminally ill to spend their final days in a comfortable and…
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
Kentucky harvest's purpose is to end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.
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 stand for ky families and the biblical values that make them strong. work to educate and advocate for biblically sound public policy, including life, marriage & family, and religious freedom, that points people back to gods design for…
Founded in 1995, bluegrass land conservancy is a community-supported, nonprofit, nationally accredited land trust working to protect land in the bluegrass region of kentucky through permanent conservation easements. we do this through…
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…
Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.
To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Our hospice of south central indiana, inc. (ohsci) is an independent, not-for-profit organization providing services to the terminally ill in a 22-county service area. since its inception 44 years ago, hospice has expanded to meet the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Grassland Congress. 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 35 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 115 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 SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SALLY KATE WINTERS FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine School ↗
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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Klig Charitable Trust · Sam Swope Family 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 Leight M Wilson 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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