· Private foundation
Raymond and Irene Wilborn Charitable Foundation C/O John Wilborn Trustee
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of RAYMOND AND IRENE WILBORN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION C/O JOHN WILBORN TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAGLE CREEK GOLF COURSE | $26,710 |
| HIGH POINT CHARITABLE SERVICES | $11,000 |
| PROJECT GRADUATION | $9,000 |
| PLANO ELEMENTARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $8,000 |
| LAGRANGE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $7,500 |
| OLDHAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| YEW DELL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| OLDHAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOPE HEALTH CLINIC | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| SURJ EDUCATIONAL FUND | $3,500 |
| THE HEALING PLACE | $3,500 |
| KY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY | $3,500 |
| ARTS ASSOCIATION OF OLDHAM CO | $3,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $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, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HCHIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +495%
- KCKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +157%
- HHHOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC6× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- ABALQUINA BLUE ARROWS PARK INCone grant, 2021 · $18k
- GNGOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +15%
- CMCREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +69%
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 support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
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.
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,…
Glean kentucky nourishes kentucky's hungry by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh foods.
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…
Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.
To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.
Shape public policy and practice to improve the well-being of kentucky's at-risk children and families through advocacy, leadership, collaboration, and education.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and 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.
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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 123 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 HIGHPOINT CHARITABLE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HOTEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Backbone Campaign ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds KRIS LANDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND ↗
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 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
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 Raymond and Irene Wilborn Charitable Foundation C/O John Wilborn Trustee 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.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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.