· Public charity
Metro United Way Inc
Metro United Way's mission is to improve lives and our community by engaging people to give, advocate, and volunteer.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 124 grants below total $5,101,503 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,407,472 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $305,969 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $166k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Louisville Orchestra | $1,000,000 |
| Kentucky Youth Advocates | $575,000 |
| Play Cousins Inc | $327,793 |
| The Salvation Army of Southern Indiana | $162,427 |
| Goodwill Industries of Kentucky | $158,104 |
| Jefferson County Public School Early Childhood | $104,500 |
| South Louisville Community Ministries | $100,000 |
| Apprisen | $91,389 |
| Family Scholar House Inc | $87,500 |
| Louisville Urban League Inc | $87,427 |
| YMCA of Greater Louisville Inc | $80,827 |
| Americana World Community Center | $80,000 |
| AMPED | $72,500 |
| Shelby County Public Schools | $70,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kentuckiana | $60,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $14.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% 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.
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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
187 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 35 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +46%
- FCFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +115%
- TBTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +58%
Funded once
- SISOUTHEASTERN INDIANA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +13%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CLARK & FLOYD INDIANA INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -25%
- WDWe Dare to Care Incone grant, 2019 · $53k · revenue -40% · 83% of their budget
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.
Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
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.
This organization runs both federal and state programs which focus on improving the lives of low income recipients.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
The child care council of kentucky is committed to supporting providers, empowering families and strengthening communities by expanding access to high quality child care resources, advocacy, and training.
Providing education & support for those working in early education and child care. ec learn inspires & equips families, professionals, and community learders to prioritize early childhood education for a
The mission of Family Nurturing Center is to end the cycle of child abuse by promoting individual well-being and healthy family relationships. We envision a world with safe children, thriving families and nurturing communities and offer a…
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.
Programs to help engage, educate,enrich and empower the youth of underserved communities in west louisville.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Worth the Words 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 25 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) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
212 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. 212 of the 307 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY COUSINS COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE LEARNING ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LINK SOUTHERN INDIANA ↗
- Who funds DORMAN PRESCHOOL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Skillz 4 Life Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY HOUSE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST BENEDICT CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISON COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT JAMISON MINISTRIES ↗
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 Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc
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 Metro United Way 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.
- United Way of South Sarasota County Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% 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.