· Public charity
Rotary Fund of Louisville Inc
The mission of the rotary fund of louisville, inc.
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.
The 4 grants below total $57,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $147,654 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,654 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARK COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION | $30,000 |
| THE ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,500 |
| METRO LOUISVILLE ROTARY CLUBS CHARITIES | $9,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
Grants abroad, by region — $15k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TRES CEIBAS WASH PROJECT EL SALVADOR
Stated purpose: FOR ROTARY CLUB
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +52% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PCPark Community Credit Union Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +20%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +58%
- WEWest End School Inc2× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CRCOVID-19 RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ILImagination Library2× · 2018–2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
The rotary club of lexington is a service club that provides its membership an opportunity for personal development, professional networking, camaraderie and the chance to make a contribution to their own community and communities around…
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.…
To provide a fellowship of inspired business, professional and civic leaders with exceptional opportunities for humanitarian and civic service while promoting integrity, understanding and goodwill on a local, national, and worldwide basis.
The mission of the rotary fund of louisville, inc. is to accept, hold, administer, invest and disburse, for charitable and educational purposes, such as given to it by any person, corporation or the rotary club of louisville, inc.
Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.
Lhome is a mission-driven, nonprofit financial institution that provides accessible, affordable loan products and financial coaching services to low-income small business owners, homeowners, and residents of louisville, kentucky. lhome is…
To raise and distribute funds in the form of grants to not for profit organizations in the Louisville area that provide legal services to the poor and disadvantaged, conduct programs to educate citizens about the law, and support…
The Louisville Community Food Pantry, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing supplemental groceries to families and individuals in Jefferson County who are in need. We provide food in a way that supports and sustains the dignity of…
Chamber of Commerce
Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Sustainability Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 42 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 Park Community Credit Union Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds METRO LOUISVILLE CLUBS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Shawnee Christian Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DEPAUL SCHOOL 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Legacy Foundation of Kentuckiana Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
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 Rotary Fund of Louisville 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.