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· Private foundation
ROSKY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$46k
Granted FY2025
33
Grants
5
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of ROSKY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
—
2022
—
2023
—
2024
further exempt
2025
further exempt
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 33 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$984k
Total assets
Largest grants
- YMCA$5,000
- LOUISVILLE FUND FOR THE ARTS$2,500
- KENTUCKY OPERA$2,500
- LINCOLN FOUNDATION$2,500
- LOUISVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$2,500
- THE SPEED MUSEUM$2,500
- FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH$2,000
- FRAZIER HISTORY MUSEUM$1,052
- KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
- WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,000
- LOUISVILLE ZOO$1,000
- LOUISVILLE BALLET$1,000
- OLMSTED PARKS$1,000
- LOUIVILLE CIVIC ORCHESTRA$1,000
- THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$210k · 25 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
25
1
Total granted
$210k
$1k
Still filing today
28%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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
- LFLINCOLN FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $13k · revenue +2%
- LOLOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%
- WBWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- IOIUS ORCHESTRAone grant, 2023 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
University of Louisville Athletic Association
The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony…
Recreation & Sports
2
University of Louisville Real Estate
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey property (see schedule o) for the benefit of the university of louisville.
Philanthropy
3
The University of Cincinnati Foundation
To inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy.
Philanthropy
4
University of Indianapolis
The mission of the University of Indianapolis is to prepare its graduates for effective membership in the societies in which they live and serve, and for excellence and leadership in their lives.
Education
5
Northern Kentucky University Foundation
Support northern kentucky university through provision of scholarships, financial aid, and other support programs
Education
6
Indiana University Research & Technology
The indiana university research and technology corporation (iurtc) serves indiana university, the state of indiana, and the nation through creation and application of the university developed technologies and services, and the expanded…
Education
7
Kentucky Public Radio Inc
Louisville public media (lpm) is an independent, community-supported nonprofit serving our community on the web, on the radio, through podcasts and community events. lpm includes three public radio stations and an investigative unit.
Arts & Culture
8
United Way of Kentucky Inc
As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.
Philanthropy
9
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
With funding, services, and advocacy, ArtsWave fuels a more vibrant economy and connected community through the arts.
Arts & Culture
10
Louisville Preservation Fund Inc
The louisville preservation fund,inc. revitalizes historic places through direct real estate action and partnerships to enhance community and promote economic development.
Community Improvement
11
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc
Endowment fund for the zoological society of cincinnati
Animals
12
Franklin College of Indiana
Franklin College empowers students through an experiential education, grounded in the liberal arts and sciences, promoting impactful careers and meaningful lives.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Louisville Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$192,612Education$16,000Arts & Culture$6,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Environment$3,000Animals$3,000Philanthropy$2,000
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 LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE ↗
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.
The Whippoorwill Family FoundationKY16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation ROSKY CHARITABLE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LINCOLN FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 610449631 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on LINCOLN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Rosky Charitable Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Rosky Charitable Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines