· Private foundation
Republic Bank Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k94 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $603k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $485k
- $250k+1 grant · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Louisville | $266,666 |
| JCTC Foundation | $200,000 |
| Hosparus Health | $125,000 |
| Jewish Community of Louisville | $60,000 |
| Metro United Way | $50,000 |
| Metro United Way | $50,000 |
| Fund for the Arts | $45,000 |
| Thomas More University | $40,000 |
| Leadership Louisville Center | $25,000 |
| Kentucky to the World | $25,000 |
| NKU Foundation | $25,000 |
| Simmons College of Kentucky | $20,000 |
| Children's Home of Northern Kentucky | $20,000 |
| Simmons College of Kentucky | $20,000 |
| Community Foundation of Louisville | $19,544 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
154 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k 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
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +165%
- TMTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $280k · revenue +57%
- KTKENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INC6× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +65% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- BEBAPTIST EAST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $75k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE CARDINAL ATHLETIC FUNDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SSST STEPHENS FAMILY LIFE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
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…
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
Healthfirst provides outpatient primary healthcare, behavioral health and dental services to the underserved and uninsured residents of fayette county and surrounding counties in kentucky.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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…
Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.
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 Broadbent Wildlife Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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 — 1% 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.
238 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. 238 of the 352 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds University of Louisville Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Simmons College of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
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- Who funds LEADERSHIP KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
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- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
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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 Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · James Graham Brown 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 Republic Bank 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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