How much did THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE grant in FY2023?

Philanthropy$18MEducation$10MRecreation & Sports$6.6MArts & Culture$6.5MHuman Services$5.7MEnvironment$2.6MHealth$2.1MInternational$1.6MReligion$1.4MOther$34M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

religion-relatedhealth crisiscrisis interventionbernheimgrademiddlevoluntary health

2020

patriotismrevolutionsing songenrichmentautoinflammatorylhomerelapsing polychondritis

2021

neighborhood improvementreducelamar studentspre-bornstrategicallylhomecrime legal

2022

notre dameinquirypresencesearchadvancementsurgicalanimated

2023

southeasternarticles incorporationindustriesappalachianyampa valleycircleproperty

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 365 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k97 grants · $672k
$10k–50k210 grants · $4.4M
$50k–250k50 grants · $5.0M
$250k+8 grants · $6.2M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC$2,889,000
21ST CENTURY PARKS ENDOWMENT INC$1,010,850
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$629,870
YEW DELL INC$448,750
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC$406,114
TREESLOUISVILLE$285,180
EVOLVE502 INC$270,000
ST FRANCIS IN THE FIELDS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$265,337
LOUISVILLE BALLET$221,090
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION$214,150
ACADEMY FOR INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE$195,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$176,950
METRO UNITED WAY INC$166,042
BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY$163,076
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$155,190

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$80M · 527 repeat orgs$8.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

527 repeat relationships — 293 still active in FY2023, 234 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

527

305

Total granted

$80M

$7.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+28%

Still filing today

69%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $11M · revenue +115%
2C
21ST CENTURY PARKS ENDOWMENT INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $4.9M · revenue +314%
LO
LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +28%

Funded once

GK
GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +150%
CF
CONSORTIUM FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -93%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
one grant, 2022 · $290k · revenue +2%

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

04Your field

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.

Kentucky Center for Economic Policy

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit

Kentucky Christian University

Higher education for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions.

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

The Community Foundation of Louisville

To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.

Philanthropy

United Way of Kentucky Inc

As a focused team of leaders, united way of kentucky will align resources and work to advance education, income and health.

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Regent University

Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.

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Kentucky Bankers Association

Kentucky bankers association, a non-profit organization, provides information on banking trends and developments to member banks.

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Washington University of Virginia

Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs

—

University of the Ozarks

A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.

Education

Kentucky Physicians Health Foundation

Assist ky medical professionals in recovery from addictive disease, mental or emotional illness.

Health

Greensboro College

An academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justfaith Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speed Art Museum. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%7/893

the rest of the field

11%

2,098/19,425

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.

05the grantee network

645 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

171

Early backer (in before they grew)

621/645

Grantees still filing

481/645

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$38,567,905Philanthropy$18,474,168Education$10,330,406Recreation & Sports$6,605,893Arts & Culture$6,542,021Human Services$5,719,526Environment$2,563,299

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.

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.

The Community Foundation OfKY268.9× affinity334 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 organisation THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHARED EXPENSE HOUSING EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823877278 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHARED EXPENSE HOUSING EDUCATION INITIATIVE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Community Foundation of Louisville?

Find your warmest path to The Community Foundation of Louisville through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

645 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation of Louisville?

More from the funding graph

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

645 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Community Foundation of Louisville?

More from the funding graph