· Private foundation
The Ginkgo Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $560k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALTECH | $400,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $260,000 |
| FRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION | $250,000 |
| FCNL EDUCATION FUND | $250,000 |
| CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES | $100,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA | $75,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $75,000 |
| CHRISTOPHER 2X GAME CHANGERS | $60,000 |
| NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CALTECH Y | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS GENERAL CONFERENCE | $40,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY-ANDOVER | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- TCTHE CALTECH Y6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +21% · 48% of their budget
- FPFRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $630k · revenue +12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $586k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- EIEVOLVE502 INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +52%
- UFUCLA FOUNDATION - EMMITT INSTITUTEone grant, 2024 · $100k
- ECEPISCOPAL CHURCH HOME FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -61%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The center for american progress (cap) is an independent nonpartisan policy institute that is dedicated to improving the lives of all americans through bold, progressive ideas, as well as strong leadership and concerted action. our aim is…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christopher 2X Game Changers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 40 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 CALTECH Y ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Paths to Peace Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Christopher 2X Game Changers Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds NONVIOLENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
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 · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels 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 organization The Ginkgo Fund 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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.