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Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$425k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Arts & Culture$12MEducation$10MReligion$4.4MEnvironment$3.3MHealth$1.4MPhilanthropy$985kCivil Rights$768kCommunity Improvement$744kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN$175,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–22, $706k) 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.

area typical 11%PAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO: $125k → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $13k → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $1k → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $250 → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $167k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $100k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $100k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $67k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $67k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $35k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $13k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $7k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $4k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
KS
DC
GA
FL

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 69 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

69 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 67 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
64

Total granted

$31M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+34%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther

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

  • SA
    SPEED ART MUSEUM
    6× · 2017–2022 · $5.1M · revenue +263% · 31% of their budget
  • CF
    CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +17% · 78% of their budget
  • KC
    KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN
    6× · 2018–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • KC
    KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN AT SPALDING UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $400k
  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHY AIR WATER AND SOIL
    one grant, 2017 · $375k
  • RF
    RIVER FIELDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue +48% · 86% of their budget

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.

1
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
2
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
3
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
4
Kentucky Bankers Association

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…

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5
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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6
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
7
Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism

To provide news and explanatory journalism in the public interest special reporting projects of an informative nature and to build a model on line newspaper others can replicate.

Education
8
Treeslouisville Inc

Our mission is to improve the health and quality of life for louisville's current and future generations through a robust, equitable and diverse tree canopy.

Community Improvement
9
Greater Louisville Sports Commission Inc

To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.

Recreation & Sports
10
Louisville Academy of Music

The louisville academy of music welcomes everyone to join our musical community. lam nurtures lifelong learners, not solely as musicians but also as creative, inspired people. equity in music education is a force to realize potential,…

Arts & Culture
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
The Kentucky Science Center Inc

Our mission is to inspire curiosity and empower individuals to explore and experiment with science in all its forms. we embrace a "do science" philosophy: play, tinker, collaborate, test, experiment, learn from mistakes, and try again.…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 21ST Century Parks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kmac Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way AffiliatesEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsPolicy Research and AdvocacyDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr18%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr18%62%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/110
the rest of the field
12%
2,430/20,208

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.

04the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 136 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
64/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPEED ART MUSEUM — $5,085,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUMCENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS — $2,381,600 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONSKENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION INC — $1,350,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION INCTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC — $1,290,500 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INCFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $489,900 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $437,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more — $1,483,966 · Arts & Culture+18 moreUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $5,584,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUND…KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN — $2,325,001 · EducationKENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGNLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $538,831 · EducationLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLTHE BERRY CENTER INC — $480,000 · EducationSimmons College of Kentucky Inc — $350,000 · Education+8 more — $108,900 · EducationCATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTION — $1,505,250 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF THE ASSUMPTIONUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $1,100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIANANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL — $750,000 · OtherNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITALKCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $440,000 · OtherKENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN AT SPALDING UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHY AIR WATER AND SOIL — $375,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $356,000 · OtherNew Pioneers For A Sustainable Future — $325,000 · OtherGREEN CASTLE BAPTIST CHURCH — $320,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC — $300,000 · Other+67 more — $2,889,032 · Other+67 moreKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC — $466,000 · EnvironmentKENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $426,000 · EnvironmentRIVER FIELDS INC — $260,303 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Alliance — $66,000 · EnvironmentLouisville Climate Action Network Inc — $59,566 · EnvironmentKENTUCKY WATERWAYS ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 · Environment+5 more — $62,000 · EnvironmentTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $695,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE — $275,000 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $240,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC — $565,786 · Human ServicesPAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO — $125,000 · Human Services+3 more — $15,250 · Human ServicesTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $620,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$12,517,966Education$9,386,932Other$8,760,282Environment$1,389,869Philanthropy$1,260,000Human Services$706,036Recreation & Sports$621,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $5,584,200 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM — $5,085,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS — $2,381,600 over 6y, 78% of budgetKENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN — $2,325,001 over 6y, 25% of budgetKENTUCKY OPERA ASSOCIATION INC — $1,350,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC — $1,290,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $695,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $620,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC — $565,786 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL — $538,831 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $489,900 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BERRY CENTER INC — $480,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC — $466,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetKCF KENTUCKY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $440,000 over 5y, 75% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES — $437,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $426,000 over 5y, 37% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC — $376,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $356,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc — $350,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNew Pioneers For A Sustainable Future — $325,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC — $300,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY — $280,900 over 6y, 30% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE — $275,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetRIVER FIELDS INC — $260,303 over 1y, 86% of budgetHISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC — $255,499 over 4y, 12% of budgetFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL INC — $250,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLOUISVILLE PRESERVATION FUND INC CO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE — $242,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $240,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET — $221,217 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLOUISVILLE COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER INC DBA CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOODS — $150,850 over 3y, 11% of budgetWORLD CONFERENCE OF RELIGIONS FOR PEACE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFamily Community Clinic Inc — $146,200 over 2y, 25% of budgetKENTUCKY AUTHOR FORUM INC — $140,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetLEGACIES UNLIMITED INC — $135,000 over 5y, 88% of budgetThe Land Institute — $130,100 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO — $125,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN — $105,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetKMAC MUSEUM — $100,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC — $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSMOKETOWN FAMILY WELLNESS CENTER CORP — $75,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPRESERVATION KENTUCKY INC — $70,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance — $66,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLouisville Climate Action Network Inc — $59,566 over 4y, 47% of budgetKENTUCKY WATERWAYS ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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 Community Foundat…Sociable Weaver Found…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…The Brooke Brown Barz…W L Lyons Brown Found…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Republic Bank Foundat…Clifton Foundation IncBrown-Forman Foundati…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY109.5× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Clifton Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman 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 Owsley Brown II Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
  • Dolphin Research Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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: 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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How do I get to Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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