· Private foundation
The Sam Schubert Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YEW DELL BOTANICAL GARDENS | $25,250 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF KENTUCKY | $21,500 |
| CENTER FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX CLUB OF NASHVILLE | $10,000 |
| WEST END PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| OLMSTEAD PARKS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISILLETOMMY ELLIOTT FUND | $5,000 |
| THE HEALING PLACE | $5,000 |
| DARE TO CARE | $2,500 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| WEDNESDAY'S CHILD INC | $2,500 |
| FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $8k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- LCLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL4× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +97%
- SSSAYRE SCHOOL3× · 2018–2021 · $43k · revenue +39%
- WCWEDNESDAYS CHILD INC6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERATORY OF KYone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MCMAYFIELD COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- JCJOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +139%
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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Benefit, perform, and carry out the charitable, educational, and other exempt purposes of indiana university health ball memorial hospital, inc. ("iu health ball memorial hospital") and related organizations, and to support activities…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
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.
Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio and the most unlike its peers is Wednesdays Child 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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 82 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 YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEDNESDAYS CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Benefit Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSIDE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds A CURE FOR ROBERT INC ↗
- Who funds Sigma Chi Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Snowy Owl 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 Sam Schubert 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.
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.