· Private foundation
Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLARK COALITION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| STRIDE | $5,000 |
| Winchester Clark County Heritage | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| BLUEGRASS HERITAGE MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| Clark County Community Services | $5,000 |
| Commonwealth Fund for KET Inc | $5,000 |
| RAPHA MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,500 |
| Clark County Animal Shelter | $1,491 |
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 (FY22–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- CCCLARK COALITION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +18%
- CFCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +24%
- CCCLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- BCBLUEGRASS COMMUNITY &TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CCCLARK COUNTY HOMELESSone grant, 2022 · $4k
- CDCathedral Domain Camp & Retreat Centerone grant, 2022 · $3k
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 organization is operated exclusively for charitable purposes carried on to promote the general health of the residents of clarksville, tn; montgomery county, tn; and the counties of northern middle tn and fort campbell, ky.
Provide social services to a nine-county area of central kentucky.
Clark county band boosters inc. was organized with the mission of providing support for the loacal high school, middle school and elementary school band programs by providing a means of financial support for activties, equipment and…
To maintain a comprehensive enrichment center with assistance to persons working in central kentucky's thoroughbred industry. includes counseling, housing and utility assistance, food and clothing, medical and dental, referral sources &…
Promoting health through physical activity and historical awareness of place.
To promote the economic development of clinton county, indiana
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Provides after school daycare programs in elementary schools to promote child welfare, child advocacy, prevention of child abuse and the enrichment of a child's environment.
Farm education
Provide services to governmental agencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluegrass Land Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 CLARK COALITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES IN ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR HANDIC CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSINC DBA LEEDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RAPHA MINISTRIES 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · John N Browning Family Fdcarlisle Co US · Clark Regional Medical Center Auxillary Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Mark and Carlisle V Mayer Family Foundation 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.