· Private foundation
The Josephine Ardery Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH UNION SHAKER VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $10,000 |
| THE BERRY CENTER | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| MARY TODD LINCOLN HOUSE-KY MANSIONS PRESERATION FDN | $5,000 |
| DRY STONE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| FOOD LITERACY PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FARMINGTON | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY COLONIAL DAMES-KY | $4,525 |
| KY GATEWAY MUSEUM | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- BGBLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +95%
- TBTHE BERRY CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +28%
- HCHENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- KTKENTUCKY TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
- KFKENTUCKY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +30%
- ACART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +113%
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.
Preservation kentucky's mission is to build support for and protect kentucky's historic structures and resources.
The organizations mission is to honor and promote the historical significance of the community of rabbit hash, ky. including preserving and maintaining the physical structures and buildings of the historical community.
The Kentucky Theatre is a historic building in downtown Lexington, KY, that had fallen into disuse and disrepair. Purchased by the City of Lexington, The Friends of the Kentucky Theatre Inc is a nonprofit tasked with overseeing the…
To purchase, preserve and display historic sites and to advance education, culture, and the arts in kentucky.
Preservation and conservation of land in boone county, kentucky
Wildlife conservation
The mission of the organization is to educate the public by interpreting the life and time of senator john brown and his descendants. the organization will collect, document, preserve, conserve, and exhibit the social domestic, and…
To preserve blackacre's natural and historic features, promote outdoor environmental education, and share blackacre's cultural heritage with the community.
Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.
Wwlt's mission is to establish conservation easements in the lower kentucky river region for the myriad of benefits that result from effective land conservation and protection. wwlt seeks to meet these objectives by focusing on three main…
The kentucky main street association empowers communities by providing training, education, and resources that strengthen local main street programs, directors, and the public. through a focus on historic preservation, restoration, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluegrass Land Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thy Will Be Done. 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 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 54 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 BLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERRY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DRY STONE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ARTS & SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds ARBOR YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVE ANATOK LLC ↗
- Who funds HINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY MANSIONS PRESERVATION FDN INC DBA MARY TODD LINCOLN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PARIS-BOURBON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Tallgrass Farm Foundation Inc · Kentucky Humanities Council Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Kentucky Social Welfare Foundation · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy · Clifton 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 Josephine Ardery 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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