· Private foundation
The Cory Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $20,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB LOUISVILLE | $20,000 |
| PORTLAND MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE FENCING CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF KENTUCKIANA | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE ZOO | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +143%
- GCGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +16%
- CPCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- HTHOLY TRINITY PARISHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
To provide, in cooperation with public and private schools, equitable access to the highest quality musical opportunities and to foster a life- long love of music for dedicated young musicians. ckyo enriches the lives of its student…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
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,…
To provide professional theatre experiences for young audiences. to provide quality theatre education for young people annually. lct provides quality theatre experiences and theatre arts education for as many as 150,000 children throughout…
To promote the development of tennis as a means of healthful recreation and physical fitness in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Civiclex strengthens civic health in lexington, kentucky, by helping our community understand and get involved in local issues, connect with their neighbors and make decisions in a better way.
Through the framework of the greatest game ever played, the kentucky golf foundation seeks to impact kentucky's youth, military and those of diversity using golf as a toolkit.
To foster, promote and advance the interests and the true spirit of the game of golf throughout the commonwealth of kentucky, and in conjunction therewith to lend its cooperation and assistance to the united states golf association, and to…
To create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.
To engage,educate, and excite everyone about the extraordinary experience that is the kentucky derby!
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FENCING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MUSEUM 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.
Open a dossier: Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Fund for the Arts Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Porcinifarmer Childrens Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cory Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cory Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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