· Private foundation
The Hacker Charitable Foundation Inc
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| EKU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| HOSPICE COMPASSIONATE CARE CENTER | $1,000 |
| COMMONWEATH FUND -KET | $1,000 |
| OPERA LEX | $500 |
| LWC CLOTHE-A-CHILD PROGRAM | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| PAPAL MISSIONARY OF MERCY | $500 |
| LEX ART'S FUND FOR THE ARTS | $500 |
| LOUISVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION | $500 |
| MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $500 |
| MADISON CO SPORTS HALL OF FAME | $500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT FOR BLUEGRASS | $320 |
| HOPE'S WINGS INC | $250 |
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 (FY21–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- FCFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH5× · 2021–2025 · $17k
- EFEKU FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $10k
- CFCOMMONWEATH FUND -KET4× · 2022–2025 · $4k
Funded once
- EKEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- KKETone grant, 2021 · $1k
- UOUK OPERA THEATERone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
The organization promotes the visual arts in the central kentucky area through sponsorshps of exhibits, offering classes, art fairs, and similar endeavors.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To provide professional theatre experiences for young audiences. to provide quality theatre education for young people annually. lct provides quality theatre experiences and theatre arts education for as many as 150,000 children throughout…
Actors theatre unlocks human potential, builds community and enriches quality of life by engaging people in theatre that reflects the wonder and complexity of our time.
Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…
Our mission is to enrich and connect our community through welcoming spaces, engaged staff, diverse resources, and lifelong learning opportunities. we create a stronger community by meeting our customers where and how they need us and…
Promoting interest in ballet, maintaining a professional dance company, and operating a dance school.
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
Advance the arts through education and enabling the public, generally, to enjoy musical,dramatic, operatic, and other forms of entertainment, to as great an extent as possible and at as low a cost as possible. produce and present…
Studio Players Inc. is a non-profit community theatre in Lexington KY. Incorporated in 1952 the organizations mission is to provide the greater Lexington KY area with a wide array of live theatre production that will be enjoyed by a wide…
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,…
Performance of opera and musicals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexarts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hopes Wings Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 34 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 Hopes Wings Inc ↗
- Who funds LEXARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OPERALEX INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOUISVILLE SPORTS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
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: LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hacker Charitable 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.
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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