· Private foundation
Pipe Dreams 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUSTIN THOMAS FOUNDATION | $170,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FIRST TEE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| IMPACT GOLF FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL LOUISVILLE | $25,000 |
| NORTON CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $20,000 |
| KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| LOST TREE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NAMI LOUISVILLE | $500 |
| CATHOLIC SERVICE APPEAL | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 82% of your 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 +128% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 10 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k 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
- KGKENTUCKY GOLF FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $143k · revenue +128%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue -15%
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $15k
Funded once
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice Universityone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +19%
- KSKENTUCKY STATE TREASURER TEAM EASTERN KENTUCKY FLOOD RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2022 · $500
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 foster, promote and advance the interests and the true spirit of the game of golf throughout the commonwealth of kentucky, and in conjunction therewith to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf association, and to…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of northern kentucky university foundation is to secure, invest, steward, and distribute private resources in support of northern kentucky university, to advocate for the university's best interests, and to build lasting…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To promote interest in junior golf.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Administering the collection and disbursements of scholarship funds to eligible students and providing monetary support for the academic programs and activities of kentucky state university.
The educational foundation of the kentucky society of certified public accountants (educational foundation), founded in 1961, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the number of college degrees in kentucky, expanding the…
Making louisville a better place
Aid and assist the university of kentucky in raising funds to further the education, religious, charitable, and athletic programs at the university and other campus activities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Justin Thomas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 THE JUSTIN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds AWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI LOUISVILLE 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 · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pipe Dreams 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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