· Private foundation
The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of THE LEWIS AND GLADYS BASS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION | $36,100 |
| DARE TO CARE | $20,000 |
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE | $20,000 |
| APRON INC | $10,000 |
| KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| THE TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL | $7,000 |
| BLUE & CO FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| UPLIFT FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN | $5,000 |
| HEUSER HEARING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB | $5,000 |
| CASA - COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $5,000 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| BOONE COUNTY DEPUTY ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY18–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- GCGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $257k · revenue +32%
- FSFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $196k · revenue +282%
- LMLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- UAUOFL ATHLETICS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $45k
- YDYEW DELL INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -24%
- UOU OF L BASS RUDD TENNIS CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
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…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Louisville Sports Commission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boone County Sheriffs Association. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 110 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 GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY TO THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APRON INC ↗
- Who funds YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Boone County Sheriffs Association ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY REFUGEE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE PRIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN 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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc · The Norton 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 Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Friends of the Arthur R Marshall Loxahatchee Ntl Wildlife Refuge Inc — 10% 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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