· Private foundation
Mahan Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Chest of Oldham Co | $60,000 |
| Creasy Mahan Nature Preserve | $45,000 |
| Hope Health Clinic | $22,000 |
| Oldham County Community Scholarships | $21,000 |
| Cedar Lake Foundation | $14,000 |
| Oldham Co Historical Society | $13,000 |
| Hosparus | $12,000 |
| St John Community Church | $7,000 |
| Sojourn Church | $7,000 |
| Shiloh United Methodist Church | $7,000 |
| Mallory Taylor Foundation | $7,000 |
| Bellewood Brooklawn | $6,000 |
| Christian Care Communities | $5,000 |
| Highpoint Charitable Services | $5,000 |
| Operation Parent | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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 +35% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- HHHOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $117k · revenue +112%
- OCOLDHAM COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP6× · 2020–2025 · $104k · revenue +40%
- CMCREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC3× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- CCChrist Church of Goshenone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SCSOJOURN CHURCH NORTHone grant, 2021 · $7k
- CFCenterstone Foundationone grant, 2020 · $6k
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…
Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
The mission of Grace Health is to show the love and share the truth of Jesus Christ to southeastern Kentucky through access to compassionate, high quality primary health care for the whole person.
To provide affordable primary healthcare services in muhlenberg and logan counties, kentucky, and in medically under-served urban, suburban, and rural areas having limited available health resources.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To be the best provider of health services through compassion, innovation and excellence.
Provide low cost housing in cave run lake area of ky
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mallory Taylor Foundation 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 39 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 4% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 54 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 COMMUNITY CHEST OF OLDHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALLORY TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PARENT ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CARE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEPAUL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KRIS LANDERS FOUNDATION 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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Peyton Samuel Head Family Trust · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc · Raymond and Irene Wilborn Charitable Foundation C/O John Wilborn Trustee
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 Mahan 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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