· Private foundation
The Gilbert Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $39k
- $250k+1 grant · $987k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DICK GILBERT CHARITABLE FUND | $987,319 |
| LYPC CO THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE | $5,000 |
| BOY'S & GIRL'S HAVEN | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC | $4,500 |
| PARKLANDS OF FLOYDS FORK | $4,000 |
| KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES IN KENTUCKY | $3,000 |
| HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACAD | $3,000 |
| VIPS | $3,000 |
| SUMMERBRIDGE LOUISVILLE | $2,800 |
| OPERATION PARENT | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 80% of The Gilbert 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, 100% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- LFLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +220%
- BLBREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +45%
- THTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +37%
- FSFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +205%
- APAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +67%
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.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.
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.…
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
We ignite the child's innate love of learning in a diverse and nurturing community by integrating authentic montessori philosophy with contemporary research-based educational methods. we empower each individual to make knowledgeable,…
The mission of the louisville nature center is to be a catalyst for conservation through environmental education and connection to nature for every person.
We are stewards of natural areas and champions of nature education, recreation, and youth. our mission is to provide and sustain quality natural spaces in louisville and ensure there is equitable access for the community.
The louisville academy of music welcomes everyone to join our musical community. lam nurtures lifelong learners, not solely as musicians but also as creative, inspired people. equity in music education is a force to realize potential,…
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio and the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 47 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
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 the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO EYE INC ↗
- Who funds TREESLOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds PASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PARENT ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCES WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE STORY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Sowing Seeds with Faith Inc ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY 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.
Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation
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 Gilbert 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.
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