· Private foundation
Snowy Owl Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k86 grants · $302k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KY DANCE COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FLIGHT CLUB 502 | $12,500 |
| PAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO INC | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| PAWS WITH PURPOSE | $10,000 |
| THE MORTON CENTER | $8,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHILDRENS HOME | $7,500 |
| FRANKLIN CO AGENCY FOR SUBSTANCE AB | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| TREES LOUISVILLE | $6,000 |
| WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN | $5,000 |
| KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +118%
- KNKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +71%
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE5× · 2017–2022 · $34k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- KYKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -15%
- AIAPPALSHOP INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +7%
- FFFUND FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -39%
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
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.…
Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Our mission is to inspire curiosity and empower individuals to explore and experiment with science in all its forms. we embrace a "do science" philosophy: play, tinker, collaborate, test, experiment, learn from mistakes, and try again.…
To provide news and explanatory journalism in the public interest special reporting projects of an informative nature and to build a model on line newspaper others can replicate.
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
219 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. 219 of the 293 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS HEALING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY AUTHOR FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE STORY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBERWELL GRIEF SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RECKONING INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN FORESTS WORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DREPUNG GOMANG INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FHGR 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 Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc
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 Snowy Owl 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.
- Wellesley College — 1% 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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