· Private foundation
Limestone Family Foundation Inc
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $141k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $383k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOOD LITERACY PROJECT AT OXMOOR FARM INC | $350,000 |
| BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB | $150,000 |
| KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $58,000 |
| EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC | $50,000 |
| ST FRANCIS IN THE FIELDS CHURCH | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE | $36,000 |
| FEED LOUISVILLE | $33,000 |
| AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| METRO UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| GULF STREAM SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of your 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.
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.
Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…
Horse country, inc. is a coordinated equine industry initiative to connect guests to the horse, land, and people of kentucky's signature equine industry through immerserive experiences at unique member locations. horse country, inc.…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To advertise, foster and promote the thoroughbred horse industry in the commonwealth of kentucky
To advertise, foster and promote the thoroughbred horse industry in the commonwealth of kentucky
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Kentucky natural lands trust works to protect, connect and restore wildlands with a commitment to safeguarding biodiversity, mitigating climate impacts and fostering healthy communities.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
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.
The rocky mountain conservancy promotes stewardship of rocky mountain national park and similar lands through education and philanthropy.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
Local history museum for lexington and fayette county, kentucky
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluegrass Land Conservancy 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.
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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 76 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 The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN BASEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HORSE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EQUESTRIAN EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Feed Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GULF STREAM SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Louisville Folk School ↗
- Who funds MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Living Church Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OWSLEY BROWN FRAZIER HISTORICAL ARMS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF KENTUCKY SPORTSMEN I ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY WATERWAYS ALLIANCE 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: W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation Incorporated · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens 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 Limestone Family 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.
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
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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