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Raymond and Irene Wilborn Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Raymond and Irene Wilborn Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$196kEducation$134kFood & Nutrition$117kHealth$89kArts & Culture$86kHuman Services$77kHousing & Shelter$50kEnvironment$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$882k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH POINT CHARITABLE SERVICES$12,000
LAGRANGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$8,400
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$5,500
BLESSING IN A BACKPACK$5,500
ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION$4,600
MT TABOR METHODIST CHURCH$3,500
JOY MINISTRIES$3,000
HOPE HOUSE MINISTRIES$3,000
PROJECT GRADUATION$2,500
FRIENDS FOR MICHAEL FOUNDATION$2,500
OLDHAM COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL$2,500
CAMP JOY$2,500
KRIS LANDERS FOUNDATION$2,500
FAIR INC$2,500
CITY OF LAGRANGE$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PILLAR: $5k → 21%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $2k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%THE BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $1k → 9%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $1k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $500 → 15%BLESSING IN A BACKPACK: $6k → 15%BLESSING IN A BACKPACK: $5k → 15%BLESSING IN A BACKPACK: $3k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $1k → 15%CROSSROADS PREGNACY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 4%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$928k · 71 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
52

Total granted

$928k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

42%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HC
    HIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +495%
  • KC
    KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +157%
  • HH
    HOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • AB
    ALQUINA BLUE ARROWS PARK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • GN
    GOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +15%
  • OC
    OLDHAM COUNTY 4H
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

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 Harvest Inc

Kentucky harvest's purpose is to end local hunger by connecting with food donors and engaging volunteers to rescue excess food and move it from those who have it to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
3
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
4
Glean Kentucky Inc

Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.

Food & Nutrition
5
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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6
Children's Alliance Incorporated

Shape public policy and practice to improve the well-being of kentucky's at-risk children and families through advocacy, leadership, collaboration, and education.

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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
Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc

Addressing the unmet health needs of kentuckians by developing and influencing policy, improving access to care, reducing health risks and disparities, and promoting health equity. the foundation makes grants, conducts campaigns, supports…

Health
9
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc

To serve those in need by acquiring and distributing food, grocery items, and government commodities through a network of charitable partnering agencies in 42 kentucky counties.

Food & Nutrition
10
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
11
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
12
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; the most unlike its peers is Theatre Three Collaborative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 129 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAGLE CREEK GOLF COURSE: $120,358 · OtherEAGLE CREEK GOLF COURSEOLDHAM COUNTY PRESCHOOL: $47,000 · OtherOLDHAM COUNTY PRESCHOOLLAGRANGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $46,400 · OtherLAGRANGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERCITY OF LAGRANGE: $33,200 · Other+104 more: $564,869 · Other+104 moreHIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC: $97,000 · Food & NutritionHIGHPOINT …DARE TO CARE INC: $8,000 · Food & NutritionDARE TO CA…FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION INC: $13,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $12,000 · InternationalMADRE INC: $11,250 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $18,781 · EducationKRIS LANDERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationOLDHAM COUNTY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationKENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $13,500 · EnvironmentInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $10,150 · EnvironmentWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentYEW DELL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $14,500 · Human ServicesBackbone Campaign: $11,500 · Human ServicesPILLAR: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $5,500 · Public Benefit+1 more: $500 · Public Benefit
Other$811,827Food & Nutrition$105,000International$36,250Education$34,781Environment$33,650Human Services$33,500Public Benefit$31,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC: $97,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $22,300 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetHOTEL INC: $20,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $18,781 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOLDHAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetOLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBackbone Campaign: $11,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMADRE INC: $11,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $10,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKRIS LANDERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATION: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $6,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPILLAR: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOLDHAM COUNTY ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYEW DELL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS FOR MICHAEL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTheatre Three Collaborative Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARM ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHope House Ministries Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHEST OF OLDHAM COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJOY MINISTRIES CORP: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAE OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY SHERIFFS' BOYS & GIRLS RANCH TRUST: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS CAMP CRESCENDO: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCROSSROADS LAGRANGE MAIN STREET PRO: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOUISVILLE CARDINAL INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOBER WORKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLINCOLN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 HIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds HOTEL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Backbone Campaign ↗
  • Who funds MADRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
  • Who funds KRIS LANDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA ↗
  • Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATION ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Peyton Samuel Head Fa…The Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Mahan Foundation IncThe Gheens Foundation…Cralle Foundation IncBlue Grass Community …Kosair Charities Comm…Republic Bank Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY35.1× affinity16 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 · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Peyton Samuel Head Family Trust · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mahan Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Raymond and Irene Wilborn Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raymond and Irene Wilborn Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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