· Private foundation
Robert and Faye Thieneman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of ROBERT AND FAYE THIENEMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KID'S CANCER ALLIANCE | $6,350 |
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $2,300 |
| THE PARKLANDS OF FLOYDS FORK | $2,250 |
| WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION | $2,000 |
| THE HEALING PLACE | $2,000 |
| WELLSPRING | $2,000 |
| THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL | $1,025 |
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION KENTUCKY CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $1,000 |
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, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 29 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- THTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +201%
- DTDARE TO CARE INC5× · 2018–2023 · $24k · revenue +52%
- FSFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +303%
Funded once
- NCNORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +206%
- GHGreen Hill Therapy Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -31%
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.
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…
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…
To improve the quality of life for individuals with severe/profound disabilities by assisting them through high-quality 24 hour, 7 days a week continuous care.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home of the Innocents Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 83 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 THE FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HOUSE AFTERCARE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Twisted Pink Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Green Hill Therapy Inc ↗
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.
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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 Robert and Faye Thieneman Family 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.
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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