· Public charity
Louisville Bar Foundation Inc
To raise and distribute funds in the form of grants to not for profit organizations in the Louisville area that provide legal services to the poor and disadvantaged, conduct programs to educate citizens about the law, and support improvements and access to the justice system.
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.
The 11 grants below total $159,536 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $201,535 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,999 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc | $30,000 |
| Finer Pearls Foundation | $21,536 |
| Legal Aid Society | $20,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Louisville Inc | $15,000 |
| Legal Aid Society | $15,000 |
| La Casita Center | $10,000 |
| University of Louisville Ackerson Law Clinic | $10,000 |
| CASA of the River Region | $10,000 |
| Kentucky Equal Justice Center | $10,000 |
| Louisville Bar Association | $10,000 |
| International Rescue Committee - Louisville | $8,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Louisville Bar Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against -42% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +48%
- KRKENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC5× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +220%
- COCASA OF THE RIVER REGION5× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- LMLOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -42%
- LBLOUISVILLE BAR CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +985%
- KTKENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +29%
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 increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of Kentucky Legal Aid is to assist and enable low-income families, elderly, disabled, and other vulnerable individuals in south central Kentucky resolve legal problems that are barriers to self-sufficiency and to provide these…
Legal Aid of the Bluegrass pursues justice and transforms lives through free, high-quality civil legal services for low-income and vulnerable people.
Neighbors Immigration Clinic is a ministry of hospitality that welcomes immigrants by providing affordable, high-quality immigration legal services to low-income immigrants, engaging in advocacy for immigrant rights, and offering education…
To raise and distribute funds in the form of grants to not for profit organizations in the Louisville area that provide legal services to the poor and disadvantaged, conduct programs to educate citizens about the law, and support…
The Immigrant and Refugee Law Center provides accessible legal services to immigrant and refugee families in the Greater Cincinnati community.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
To maintain a proper discipline of the members of the bar in accordance with the rules set forth by the kentucky supreme court and with the principles of the legal profession as a public calling, to initiate and supervise, with the…
Micah Legal is Kentucky's first sliding legal services nonprofit, making access to justice affordable for everyone.
To promote the administration of justice and to educate the public about the role of the judicial system and the legal profession in the society.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 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 LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIPLE TWELVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASITA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OFFICE OF KENTUCKY LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE BAR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KENTUCKY LEGAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds The Institute for Compassion in Justice 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 Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Nel S Morrison Charitable Trust #1 Xxx-Xx-Xxxx
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 Louisville Bar 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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