· Private foundation
The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $366k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+3 grants · $833k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Brown Forman Corp Cl B.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE | $333,453 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE | $208,204 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $144,078 |
| METRO UNITED WAY | $100,722 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $100,484 |
| LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SOWING SEEDS OF FAITH | $100,000 |
| REBOUND INC | $100,000 |
| KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE | $75,000 |
| LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE | $57,723 |
| FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY | $50,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $50,000 |
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, $1.2M) 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +263%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +97%
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $750k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- WFWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +41%
- MSMARTY STUART CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSICone grant, 2023 · $100k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD - PPGNHAIKone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central 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.…
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Identify, mobilize, and fund programs to address louisville's greatest challenges regarding business growth and increased economic prosperity for all citizens in the greater louisville region.
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Billy Fiske Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 133 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 SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REBOUND INC ↗
- Who funds ADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ONEWEST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Simmons College of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE KIDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found
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 The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic 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.
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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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