· Private foundation
Msw Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA | $8,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS HAVEN | $5,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| FLIGHT CLUB 502 | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PHILANTHROPY | $2,500 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $1,000 |
| HILDEGARD HOUSE | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY CATHOLIC CENTER | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 58% of Msw Foundation’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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +37%
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM5× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +128%
- KCKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- FMFralin Museum of Artone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HTHOLY TRINITY CHURCH - CLIFTON CAMPUSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -55%
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 improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The kentucky medical association provides physician advocacy through governmental interaction, legal intervention, and public education, as well as providing physician education through periodic workshops/seminars, and an annual convention…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is West End School 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEACH KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT CLUB 502 ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CATHOLIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE 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: LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Msw 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.
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