How much did THE GHEENS FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE GHEENS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2020

planofficeequityseedsliscgrowingami lower

2021

fairbusinessesmentallyofficeeducation museumlouisville youthdisabilities

2022

privatemedical caregrantmaking educationeducation healthhealth artsarts recreationcertificate

2023

corptutoringeducation museumthrivejob trainingfocusedambassadors

2024

peacelouisville deliverycampusstrategicproductionhillaffordable housing

2025

deliverycapital improvementsgrowthcampussmoketownaffordablerefuge

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

03FY2024 · 163 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k108 grants · $1.9M
$50k–250k48 grants · $3.6M
$250k+3 grants · $900k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$173M

Total assets

Largest grants

VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA MID-STATES INC$400,000
SIMMONS COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY INC$250,000
HOME OF THE INNOCENTS$250,000
BAYOU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$200,000
LOUISVILLE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$200,000
RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC$175,000
NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION$150,000
RIVER HERITAGE CONSESRVANCY INC$150,000
LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$123,623
LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERS INC$100,000
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY$100,000
THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC$100,000
FUND FOR THE ARTS$100,000
AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC$100,000

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 (FY20–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 17% 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, 79% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 73% — 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$32M · 219 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

219 repeat relationships — 125 still active in FY2024, 94 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

219

Total granted

$32M

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+66%

Still filing today

76%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% 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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

BC
BAYOU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +575%
ND
NEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +111%
LU
LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC
3× · 2020–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +364%

Funded once

RD
RUSSELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +2665%
LP
LOUISVILLE PARKS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $200k
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KENTUCKYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue +220%

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.

Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio to catalyze long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International

Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

Provided access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky.

Crime & Legal

Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates Inc

To assist at risk students to graduate from high school and successfully transition to work or further education

Education

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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Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville

Health

Louisville Central Community Centerinc

Provides community servicefamily counseling day care to the inner city of louisville

Recreation & Sports

Central Louisville Community Ministries

To minister to the needs of low income residents of the central louisville area.

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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

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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Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy

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

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

Women Leading Kentucky Inc

Women leading kentucky(wlk) is an educational organization. wlk provides events to educate women and men in areas of business and leadership.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Louisville Foundation 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.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/258

the rest of the field

13%

521/4,021

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.

06the grantee network

248 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)

107

Early backer (in before they grew)

246/248

Grantees still filing

198/248

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$17,600,200Education$5,839,623Human Services$5,455,000Community Improvement$2,725,000Arts & Culture$1,915,000Philanthropy$1,498,500Housing & Shelter$1,280,250

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 of LouisvilleKY258.2× affinity156 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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

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: VETERAN CLUB INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 226166516 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 VETERAN CLUB 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 70% 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 Gheens Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Gheens Foundation Inc 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 GHEENS FOUNDATION INC

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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

248 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gheens Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE GHEENS FOUNDATION INC

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?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

248 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Gheens Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph