· Private foundation
The Samuel Lyon 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENESETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $18,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES | $11,000 |
| THE TEMPLE | $8,500 |
| NORTHWESTERN ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $5,000 |
| MEREDITH-DUNN LEARNING CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN | $2,500 |
| MT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM | $2,000 |
| MERCY ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| LOUISVILLE OLMSTEAD PARKS CONSERVAN | $1,500 |
| KIDS CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC THERAPIES | $1,500 |
| WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,250 |
| HADASSAH | $1,250 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY-KY | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +201%
- LOLOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +156%
- CPCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $23k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOUISVILLEone grant, 2019 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WHAS CRUSADE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN LOUISVILLE SECTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds HONEYMOON ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds POWER FOR PARKINSONS ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Samuel Lyon Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Samuel Lyon Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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