· Private foundation
Sam Swope Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE | $130,000 |
| WEST END SCHOOL | $130,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| KY HUMANE SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS | $80,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $80,000 |
| CASA | $80,000 |
| UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $80,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN | $80,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOME | $80,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $80,000 |
| MARYHURST | $80,000 |
| KOSAIR FOR KIDS | $55,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $25,000 |
| DARE TO CARE | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +39% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WEWest End School Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $440k · revenue +193%
- FSFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $390k · revenue +198%
- KHKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE4× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $65k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS KENTUCKYone grant, 2021 · $45k
- NCNORTHEAST CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCone grant, 2021 · $40k
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.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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…
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…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Open Arms 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 37 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.
51 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. 51 of the 85 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 West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Uniting Partners for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds A CHOICE FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FHGR INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERSERVE 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 Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation
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 Sam Swope 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% 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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