· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +11%
- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pipe Dreams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pipe Dreams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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