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The Gheens Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
157
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$8.3MEducation$7.1MHousing & Shelter$4.6MPhilanthropy$3.3MArts & Culture$3.0MHealth$3.0MCommunity Improvement$2.9MYouth Development$2.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 157 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k104 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k47 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+3 grants · $900k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$161M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MID-STATES INC$400,000
THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC$250,000
SIMMONS COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY INC$250,000
BAYOU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC$175,000
NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION$150,000
ONEWEST CORPORATION$125,000
USPIRITUS INC$125,000
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
RIVER HERITAGE CONSESRVANCY INC$100,000
HOME OF THE INNOCENTS$100,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$100,000
MOLO VILLAGE CDC CO$100,000
AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC$100,000
LOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC$100,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $6.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $40k → 15%ELDERSERVE INC: $92k → 15%ELDERSERVE INC: $50k → 15%ELDERSERVE INC: $50k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $160k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $80k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $80k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $80k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $80k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $80k → 15%RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC: $175k → 15%RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC: $175k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $75k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $50k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $250k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $250k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $100k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $50k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $50k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $40k → 15%LA CASITA CENTER INC: $75k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE: $50k → 15%LA CASITA CENTER INC: $50k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $40k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $50k → 15%HOSPARUS HEALTH: $50k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $600k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $200k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $200k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $110k → 15%MOLO VILLAGE CDC CO: $100k → 15%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $100k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $75k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $75k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $75k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $75k → 15%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S PLACE: $75k → 15%ELDERSERVE INC: $50k → 15%YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $50k → 15%ELDERSERVE INC: $50k → 15%THE CENTER FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES: $40k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

WA
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
KY
VA
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 16% of The Gheens Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Gheens Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$37M · 238 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

238 repeat relationships — 138 still active in FY2025, 100 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

238
78

Total granted

$37M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+4%

Still filing today

92%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • ND
    NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +70%
  • SC
    Simmons College of Kentucky Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +153%
  • TL
    THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • RD
    RUSSELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue ×25
  • LF
    LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2024 · $124k
  • RF
    ROTARY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k

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.

1
Endeavor Louisville Inc

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.…

International
2
Thrive By 5 Louisville Inc

Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.

Education
3
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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4
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

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,…

Crime & Legal
5
Rebound Inc

To create positive impact in housing and economic development, while helping families to have access to affordable, quality housing within our historic urban neighborhoods.

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6
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

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

Public Benefit
7
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
8
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
10
Independent Living Options Inc

Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.

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11
Opportunities Inc of Jefferson County

Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.

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12
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Regional Science & Engineering Fair. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr16%16%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr16%9%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr14%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/305
the rest of the field
15%
607/3,974

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

291 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. 291 of the 341 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
94
Early backer (in before they grew)
288/291
Grantees still filing
185/291
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION — $1,350,000 · OtherNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATIONVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC — $1,100,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $850,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $725,000 · OtherPARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC — $600,000 · Other+88 more — $12,431,123 · Other+88 moreTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC — $1,030,000 · Human ServicesTHE LOUISVILLE URBA…THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC — $740,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INN…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $560,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE …FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $485,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S…RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 · Human ServicesELDERSERVE INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesLA CASITA CENTER INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesMOLO VILLAGE CDC CO — $235,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC — $225,000 · Human Services+27 more — $2,555,000 · Human Services+27 moreUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,600,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOU…Simmons College of Kentucky Inc — $1,250,000 · EducationSimmons College o…BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $401,000 · EducationBELLARMINE UNIVER…LINCOLN FOUNDATION — $275,000 · EducationKENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC — $250,000 · Education+20 more — $2,265,000 · Education+20 moreBayou Community Foundation — $1,550,000 · Community ImprovementBayou Com…ONEWEST CORPORATION — $675,000 · Community ImprovementONEWEST C…GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER L…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $250,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INI…DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $125,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $180,000 · Community Improvement+3 moreFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $800,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUM — $300,000 · Arts & CultureADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 · Arts & CultureRECKONING INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $680,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $635,000 · PhilanthropyRUSSELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC — $500,000 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $440,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE — $214,750 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC — $175,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $175,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC — $150,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $90,000 · PhilanthropyHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE — $400,000 · Housing & ShelterLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY — $275,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC — $270,250 · Housing & ShelterSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC — $225,000 · Housing & ShelterSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES — $180,000 · Housing & ShelterUSA CARES INC — $105,000 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN HOUSING COALITION INC — $60,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $90,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$17,056,123Human Services$6,730,000Education$6,291,000Community Improvement$3,230,000Arts & Culture$2,670,000Philanthropy$2,379,750Housing & Shelter$1,605,250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,600,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBayou Community Foundation — $1,550,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION — $1,350,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc — $1,250,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC — $1,030,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $850,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $800,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC — $740,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetONEWEST CORPORATION — $675,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC — $635,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC — $600,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $560,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC — $525,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $500,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $485,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 4y, 69% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $440,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $401,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE — $400,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC — $400,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetRITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC — $335,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $330,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC — $330,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $320,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM — $300,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetELDERSERVE INC — $300,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $300,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $275,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLINCOLN FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY — $275,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC — $270,250 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWELLSPRING INC — $260,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPERSONAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $260,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetTHE MORTON CENTER INC — $255,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC — $250,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC — $250,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetKENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) — $250,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC — $250,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC — $250,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY YOUTH ADVOCATES INC — $245,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetKENTUCKY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $240,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetMOLO VILLAGE CDC CO — $235,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC — $225,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC — $225,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budget
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 LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Simmons College of Kentucky Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEWEST CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RUSSELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
  • Who funds RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ELDERSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSONAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MORTON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CASITA CENTER 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.

The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Cralle Foundation IncHonorable Order of Ke…Snowy Owl Foundation …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Kosair Charities Comm…James Graham Brown Fo…Metro United Way IncRepublic Bank Foundat…V V Cooke Foundation …
The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository IncKY254.7× affinity161 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · Republic Bank 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 Gheens 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Gheens Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Gheens Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 341 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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