· Public charity
The Whas Crusade for Children Inc
The whas crusade for children makes life better for children with identified health care, educational, and emotional wellness needs by inspiring generosity with our community partners.
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 $10k41 grants · $308k
- $10k–50k138 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+3 grants · $957k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL-NEUROSURGERY | $414,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION GREATER LOUISVILLE INC | $280,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $262,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC - CENTER FOR WOMEN & INFANTS | $193,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION HARDIN | $103,000 |
| USPIRITUS INC - BELLEWOOD AND BROOKLAWN | $90,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTHCARE - FLOYD MEMORIAL | $90,000 |
| KENTUCKY CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDRENS SERVICES | $85,000 |
| MEREDITH-DUNN SCHOOL - CAPITAL GRANT | $84,000 |
| DUCHENNE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND MIRACLE FDT INC | $80,000 |
| SHELBY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $80,000 |
| TJ SAMSON REGIONAL | $80,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS - PROGRAM GRANTS | $75,000 |
| FATHER MALONEYS BOYS HAVEN INC | $71,000 |
| BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY-KIDS ON THE MOVE | $62,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 82% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
248 repeat relationships — 164 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 15 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $706k 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +109%
- UOUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation6× · 2017–2023 · $2.2M · revenue +61%
- VIVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +44%
Funded once
- JHJEWISH HOSPITAL & ST MARY'S HEALTHCARE INCone grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue -99%
- PMPIKEVILLE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION FOR QUALITY HEALTHCARE INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -16%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -62%
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.
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We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
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To provide kdmc team members and members of the community the convenience of an exceptional child development center that promotes physical, emotional, intellectual, and social growth in a christian values-based environment, supporting the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifespring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Open Arms 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 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
201 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. 201 of the 315 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Louisville Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVEN COUNTIES SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Hardin ↗
- Who funds FATHER MALONEY'S BOY'S HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CENTER FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH LONDON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TJ SAMSON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds FLOYD MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LOUISVILLE ↗
- Who funds FLAGET MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEUSER HEARING & LANGUAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN) ↗
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: Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Jobs for Kentucky's Graduates 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 Whas Crusade for Children 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.