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The Gheens Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SIMMONS COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY INC$250,000
THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP 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
PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC$100,000
AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC$100,000
RIVER HERITAGE CONSESRVANCY INC$100,000
LOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC$100,000
MOLO VILLAGE CDC CO$100,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$100,000
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $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%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $50k → 15%HOSPARUS HEALTH: $50k → 15%HOSPARUS 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%COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE: $100k → 15%MOLO VILLAGE CDC CO: $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%YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $50k → 15%ELDERSERVE 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
KY
VA
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 16% of The Gheens Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 78%.

The Gheens Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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%
+7%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COORDINATED CHILD CARE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -32%
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.

04Its field

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.

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.

—
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.

—
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.

—
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.

—
12
Commerce Lexington Inc

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

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

291 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
95
Early backer (in before they grew)
288/291
Grantees still filing
190/291
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+90 more: $12,511,123 · Other+90 moreTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1,030,000 · Human ServicesTHE LOUISVILLE URB…THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $740,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE IN…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $560,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $485,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'…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+26 more: $2,515,000 · Human Services+26 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 & CultureTHE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureRECKONING INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $640,000 · 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 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST KYINC: $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$17,136,123Human Services$6,690,000Education$6,291,000Community Improvement$3,230,000Arts & Culture$2,630,000Philanthropy$2,379,750Housing & Shelter$1,605,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC: $400,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $400,000 over 4y, 2.3% 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 budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $300,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetELDERSERVE INC: $300,000 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY: $275,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $275,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLINCOLN FOUNDATION: $275,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $270,250 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetPERSONAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $260,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $260,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MORTON CENTER INC: $255,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $250,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC: $250,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC: $250,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC: $250,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $250,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 budgetKENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC: $225,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budget
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 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 RUSSELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER 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 RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE ↗
  • 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ELDERSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSONAL COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MORTON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
  • Who funds LA CASITA CENTER 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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gheens Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gheens Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 341 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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