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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$1.5MYouth Development$1.3MEducation$895kHealth$761kAnimals$435kHousing & Shelter$345kCivil Rights$345kPublic Safety & Disaster$165kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
$80,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST END SCHOOL$130,000
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE$130,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$100,000
KY HUMANE SOCIETY$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN$80,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$80,000
BIG BROTHERS$80,000
UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN$80,000
ST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOME$80,000
CASA$80,000
HOME OF THE INNOCENTS$80,000
MARYHURST$80,000
KOSAIR FOR KIDS$55,000
DARE TO CARE$25,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$25,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION CARE: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $80k → 15%UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $65k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $80k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $80k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $65k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $50k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $50k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $50k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $15k → 15%HOSPARUS HEALTH: $35k → 15%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $25k → 15%HOSPARUS: $20k → 15%HOSPARUS HEALTH: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $15k → 15%ELDER SERVE: $10k → 15%ELDER SERVE: $10k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 41 repeat orgs$632k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
42

Total granted

$5.5M
$582k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+39%

Still filing today

80%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WE
    West End School Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $440k · revenue +193%
  • FS
    FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $390k · revenue +198%
  • KH
    KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $380k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $65k
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • NC
    NORTHEAST CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
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
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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2
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
3
The Way Back Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Marrakech Inc

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…

Employment
5
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
6
Trivium Life Services

Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services

Employment
7
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
8
Bowen Health Inc

To provide compassionate, patient-centered care for mind and body that improves the quality of life for our communities.

Health
9
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
10
Owensboro Health Medical Group Inc

Owensboro health medical group, inc. exists to heal the sick and improve the health of the community.

Health
11
Christian Care Surprise Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
12
Westcare Kentucky Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN SOCIETY: $545,000 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN SOCIETYBIG BROTHERS: $315,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERSTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $315,000 · OtherTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INCBOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN: $255,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS HAVENHARBOR HOUSE: $100,000 · OtherCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $340,000 · OtherCASA OF THE RIVER REGION+47 more: $880,042 · Other+47 moreWest End School Inc: $440,000 · EducationWest End School…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF L…+2 more: $20,000 · EducationTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $375,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE…Uniting Partners for Women and Children: $145,000 · Human ServicesUniting Partner…HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $60,000 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS INC HO…PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPAWS WITH PURPO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $40,000 · Human Services+7 more: $105,000 · Human Services+7 moreKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC: $280,000 · HealthKOSAIR CH…USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $72,500 · HealthUSPIRITUS…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CAN…FHGR INC: $30,000 · HealthFHGR INCNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $20,000 · HealthTHE DREAM FACTORY INC: $20,000 · Health+3 more: $40,000 · Health+3 moreFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $390,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY SC…USA CARES INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterUSA CARES…ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterST MATTHE…KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $380,000 · AnimalsMARYHURST INC: $340,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,750,042Education$860,000Human Services$820,000Health$512,500Housing & Shelter$510,000Animals$380,000Youth Development$340,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWest End School Inc: $440,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $390,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $380,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $375,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARYHURST INC: $340,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $340,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $315,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC: $280,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children: $145,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC: $75,842 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $72,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSA CARES INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS WITH PURPOSE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $47,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA CHOICE FOR LIFE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFHGR INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELDERSERVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DREAM FACTORY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISVILLE NATURE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORTON CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMANHOOD JOURNEY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE DEPAUL SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetZOOM GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOSEAS HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetOPERATION CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $6,700 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 MARYHURST INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
  • 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 NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION 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 Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…Cralle Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Snowy Owl Foundation …V V Cooke Foundation …Kosair Charities Comm…Republic Bank Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Wood & Marie Hannah F…
The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository IncKY71.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sam Swope Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 85 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-PF 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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