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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.
$202k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of LOUISVILLE BAR FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
mclajeffersonsummerscholarshipsprogrammingkleoequal
2022
veteranstechnologytogetherwest officeneighborhood officevolunteer corpsprinting marketing
2023
mediationpracticalackerson clinicviolentsurvivorsviolence interventionintervention prevention
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $152k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
- Louisville Bar Association$10,000
- University of Louisville Ackerson Law Clinic$10,000
- Kentucky Equal Justice Center$10,000
- CASA of the River Region$10,000
- International Rescue Committee - Louisville$8,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$509k · 11 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +161% since the first grant, against -15% 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
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
6
Total granted
$509k
$62k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+161%
-15%
Still filing today
82%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationReligionCivil RightsEmploymentOther
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 · $126k · revenue +48%
- KRKentucky Refugee Ministries Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $107k · revenue +220%
- COCASA of the River Region5× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- DLDoctors & Lawyers for Kidsone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -42%
- JCJefferson Courtroom Upgrade Projectgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +985%
- KTKentucky to the World Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc
Provided access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky.
Crime & Legal
2
Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society
To resolve the most important problems of low income and other vulnerable people by providing high quality legal assistance through direct representation, education, advice, advocacy and coordination with other community resources.
Crime & Legal
3
Cumberland Trace Legal Services Inc
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…
Crime & Legal
4
Kentucky Bar Association
Implement, administer and enforce kentucky supreme court rules regarding the discipline and education of the attorneys of kentucky
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5
Kentucky County Judgeexecutive Associat
Provide services to governmental agencies.
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6
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…
Crime & Legal
7
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
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8
The Kentucky Bar Foundation Inc
Further the public's understanding of the judicial system and the legal profession through programs and philanthropic partnerships that help those in need.
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9
Legal Aid of East Tennessee
Legal representation, counseling and other civil legal services for the indigent of tennessee
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10
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee
To provide civil legal assistance to low-income people and their families.
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11
Appalachian Citizens Law Center Inc
ACLC is a nonprofit law firm that engages in strategic litigation and policy work in the area of mine safety and health, environmental protection, legacy cost of extractive industries on the people, land and economy of the Central…
Crime & Legal
12
Louisville & Jefferson County
The organization is non-profit, incorporated in 1971 for the purpose of rendering legal services pursuant to court appointment in jefferson county, ky, to indigent adults and juveniles accused of crimes and status offenses, and to those…
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Refugee Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Kentucky Legal Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$261,995Religion$106,500Human Services$92,500Crime & Legal$52,500Civil Rights$45,000Education$20,000Employment$14,000International$8,000
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 Access Justice Metro Christian Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds La Casita Center ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Equal Justice Center ↗
- Who funds Family and Children's Place ↗
- Who funds Doctors & Lawyers for Kids ↗
- Who funds Jefferson Courtroom Upgrade Project ↗
- Who funds Kentucky to the World Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of KLEO Program ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee - Louisville ↗
- Who funds Institute for Compassion in Justice ↗
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.
The Kentucky Bar Foundation IncKY29× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Jefferson Courtroom Upgrade Project.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.9× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 611307946 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Jefferson Courtroom Upgrade Project, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Louisville Bar Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Louisville Bar Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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