· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc
To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 678 grants below total $54,972,757 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $57,573,751 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,600,994 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k122 grants · $873k
- $10k–50k348 grants · $7.1M
- $50k–250k163 grants · $17M
- $250k+45 grants · $30M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $3,853,691 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $2,755,992 |
| COMMUNITY INITIATIVES | $2,000,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC | $1,846,643 |
| HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $1,363,009 |
| LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $1,153,850 |
| CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS INC | $910,021 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $866,575 |
| STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $836,222 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $700,000 |
| NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $635,315 |
| FUND FOR THE ARTS INC | $634,011 |
| METRO UNITED WAY INC | $607,435 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE | $605,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE | $591,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $15.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
839 repeat relationships — 516 still active in FY2025, 323 since wound down; 118 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.2M 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
- LCLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +97%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8.6M · revenue +179%
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +263%
Funded once
- TBTOWN BRANCH PARK INCone grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue -74% · 70% of their budget
- LRLIFELINE RECOVERY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue 0%
- LFLUTHER F CARSON FOUR RIVERS CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue -40%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carolines Kids Pet Rescue. 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 34 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1159 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. 1159 of the 1,483 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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Christian Foundation Inc National Christian Foundation Kentucky ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE CORPORATE DEPOSITORY INC ↗
- Who funds MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE BERRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds FATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS ↗
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 Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
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 Community Foundation of Louisville 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 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.