· Private foundation
R Keith Cullinan Family
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH POINT CHARITABLE SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CAMPBELLSVILLE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HEUSER HEARING AND LANGUAGE ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| DAYSPRING | $5,000 |
| GOOD NEWS HOMES | $5,000 |
| BAPTISTS ON MISSION | $5,000 |
| COACHING FOR LITERACY | $5,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $5,000 |
| HEROIC GARDENS | $5,000 |
| LAMPLIGHTER MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| THE PETE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE ARROW FUND | $3,000 |
| SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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 +57% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 14 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- CFCHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue ×18
- HCHIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +138%
- BCBLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +198%
Funded once
- SDSANDRA DEFOOR STUDENT SUCCESS SCHOLone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR GOV ACCOUNTIBILITYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- KEKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDRENone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -62%
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 advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Educational Fund for Handicapped Children. 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.
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 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 163 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 CHAMPIONS FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds HIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF SHADES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PETE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds RADIO EYE INC ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAY SPRING INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Adopt Me Bluegrass Pet Rescue ↗
- Who funds WATERSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OLDHAM COUNTY ↗
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 · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · Kosair Charities Committee 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 R Keith Cullinan Family 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Valerie's House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% 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.
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