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The Susan and William Yarmuth Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Susan and William Yarmuth Family Foundation Inc

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.

$928k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$674k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$2.0MArts & Culture$1.5MEducation$438kHealth$366kHuman Services$351kPublic Safety & Disaster$327kPhilanthropy$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $229k
  • $250k+1 grant · $674k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC$674,179
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$125,000
GILDA'S CLUB$104,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $328k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $150k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $20k → 14%PAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO: $13k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 7 repeat orgs$797k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$4.2M
$797k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-6%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationReligionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TL
    THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +179%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $438k · revenue +13%
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $354k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOUSIVILLE
    one grant, 2023 · $338k
  • KC
    KBY Congregations Together Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue -5%
  • TT
    THE TEMPLE CONGREGATION ADATH ISREAL B RITH SHOLOM INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
2
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
3
Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc

Jhf is a grant making organization with a mission to support the jewish heritage mitzvah fund and to support the medical and general community of kentucky (excluding boone, kenton and campbell counties) and floyd, clark, harrison and scott…

Health
4
Louisville Preservation Fund Inc Co Community Foundation of Louisville

The louisville preservation fund,inc. revitalizes historic places through direct real estate action and partnerships to enhance community and promote economic development.

Community Improvement
5
Actors Theatre of Louisville Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Kentucky Blood Center Inc

At kentucky blood center, our mission is to ensure a safe and abundant supply of lifegiving blood to the hospitals we serve. we are here to support our local communities in any way that we are able by being an integral and valued partner…

Health
7
Louisville Water Foundation

The Louisville Water Foundation's mission is to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve and around the world by providing water assistance and water education. The Foundation will provide assistance for water…

Environment
8
Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Lpm provides independent and courageous news, music and experiences that serve the needs and aspirations of our diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
9
Louisville Bar Center Inc

To work in concert with the louisville bar association, to promote the legal profession and the study of law through continuing education for lawyers and improve the community through the provision of law-related benefits, including pro…

Employment
10
Univ of Louisville & Jewish Heritage Fund Cardiovascular Innovation Inst

The mission of the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute is to improve lives through world-class cardiovascular research, scientific discovery and new enterprise creation.

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11
University Medical Center Inc

To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health
12
Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life

The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community of Louisville Inc; the most unlike its peers is Compassion & Cooking. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASORTI FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM IN ISRAEL: $1,202,000 · OtherMASORTI FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM IN ISRAELADATH JESHURUN: $436,563 · OtherADATH JESHURUNGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $354,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOUSIVILLE: $338,020 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOUSIVILLECONGREGATION ADATH JESHURUN: $116,954 · OtherTHE TEMPLE CONGREGATION ADATH ISREAL B RITH SHOLOM INC: $100,000 · Other+2 more: $43,000 · OtherTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $1,341,789 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INCCOMPASSION & COOKING: $70,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS WORKSHOP: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $437,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $315,000 · Human ServicesPAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO: $12,500 · Human ServicesGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $150,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyKBY Congregations Together Inc: $134,540 · ReligionLOUISVILLE HEALTHCARE CEO COUNCIL INC: $12,010 · HealthLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,590,537Arts & Culture$1,481,789Education$437,500Human Services$327,500Philanthropy$185,000Religion$134,540Health$12,010Crime & Legal$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $1,341,789 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $437,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $354,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $315,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKBY Congregations Together Inc: $134,540 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCOMPASSION & COOKING: $70,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetDANCERS WORKSHOP: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTRAL FLORIDA HILLEL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO: $12,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLOUISVILLE HEALTHCARE CEO COUNCIL INC: $12,010 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sheldon & Denise Schi…Charles L Weisberg Fa…Julia & Isadore Klein…Kindred Foundation IncRepublic Bank Foundat…Jewish Heritage Fund …W L Lyons Brown Found…The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…Isadore & Rose Goldst…Roth Family Foundatio…The Lewis and Gladys …
Sheldon & Denise Schiller Foundation IncKY17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sheldon & Denise Schiller Foundation Inc · Charles L Weisberg Family Foundation · Julia & Isadore Klein Family Foundation Inc · Kindred Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Isadore & Rose Goldstein Family Foundation Inc · Roth Family Foundation Inc F/K/A Louis T Roth Foundation Inc · The Lewis and Gladys Bass Family Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Susan and William Yarmuth Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Susan and William Yarmuth Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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