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Rotary Fund of Louisville Inc

The mission of the rotary fund of louisville, inc.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$118kHousing & Shelter$109kInternational$103kCommunity Improvement$55kYouth Development$25kHealth$16kEnvironment$15kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $57,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,654 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,654 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$10,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION: $5k → 18%THE APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL: $8k → 14%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $23k → 14%METRO LOUISVILLE ROTARY CHARATIES: $10k → 15%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%METRO LOUISVILLE ROTARY CLUBS CHARITIES: $10k → 15%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%METRO LOUISVILLE ROTARY CLUBS CHARITIES: $10k → 15%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%METRO LOUISVILLE ROTARY CLUBS CHARITIES: $10k → 15%PARK COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $30k → 15%RECENTER MINISTRIES: $8k → 15%PARK COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $30k → 15%EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE: $6k → 15%PARK COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION: $28k → 15%FAMILY COMMUNITY CLINIC: $5k → 15%THE DE PAUL SCHOOL: $5k → 15%LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL: $5k → 15%FOOD LITERACY PROJECT: $5k → 15%BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $11k → 15%WEST END SCHOOL: $10k → 15%WEST END SCHOOL: $6k → 15%IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $10k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $7k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $7k → 15%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $7k → 15%SHAWNEE CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE CENTER: $9k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

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.

Central America and the Caribbean$10k · 67% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRES CEIBAS WASH PROJECT EL SALVADOR

Sub-Saharan Africa$5k · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FOR ROTARY CLUB

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 5 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
36

Total granted

$172k
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+2%

Still filing today

60%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHealthPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PC
    Park Community Credit Union Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $88k · revenue +20%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +86%
  • WE
    West End School Inc
    2× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • CR
    COVID-19 RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • IL
    Imagination Library
    2× · 2018–2019 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
2
Rotary Club of Lexington Kentucky Inc

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…

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3
Endeavor Louisville Inc

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.…

International
4
Rotary Club of Louisville Inc

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.

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5
Rotary Fund of Louisville Inc

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.

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6
Louisville Central Community Centerinc

Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.

Recreation & Sports
7
Louisville Housing Opportunity and Micro Enterprise Community

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Louisville Bar Foundation Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
9
Louisville Grows Incorporated
Food & Nutrition
10
Louisville Community Food Pantry Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Louisville Chamber of Commerce

Chamber of Commerce

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12
Thrive By 5 Louisville Inc

Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Sustainability Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO LOUISVILLE CLUBS CHARITIES INC: $28,500 · OtherMETRO LOUISVILLE CLUBS CHARITIES INCCOVID-19 RELIEF: $25,000 · OtherCOVID-19 RELIEFIndividual grant recipient: $19,665 · OtherIndividual grant recipientImagination Library: $15,000 · OtherImagination LibraryIndividual grant recipient: $14,556 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity of Louisville: $11,500 · OtherBLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $11,000 · OtherLEADERSHIP FELLOW PROGRAM: $10,000 · OtherMETRO LOUISVILLE ROTARY CHARATIES: $9,500 · OtherGhana Water Project: $8,400 · Other+21 more: $94,365 · Other+21 morePark Community Credit Union Inc: $88,000 · Public BenefitPark Community Credi…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $55,115 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FO…West End School Inc: $15,500 · EducationWest End S…IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 · EducationIMAGINATIO…APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE: $7,640 · EducationAPPROPRIAT…EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $6,000 · EducationEDUCATIONA…THE DEPAUL SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE DEPAUL…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $20,650 · Housing & ShelterShawnee Christian Health Center Inc: $9,000 · HealthFamily Community Clinic Inc: $5,000 · HealthJEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC: $7,699 · Religion
Other$247,486Public Benefit$88,000International$55,115Education$44,140Housing & Shelter$20,650Health$14,000Religion$7,699

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $55,115 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO LOUISVILLE CLUBS CHARITIES INC: $28,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $20,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWest End School Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $11,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetShawnee Christian Health Center Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC: $7,699 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAPPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATIVE: $7,640 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetROTARY DISTRICT 5390 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE DEPAUL SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DEPAUL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…Kosair Charities Comm…Cralle Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Legacy Foundation of …Lift a Life Foundatio…Baird Foundation IncHonorable Order of Ke…V V Cooke Foundation …
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rotary Fund of Louisville Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rotary Fund of Louisville Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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