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The Woman's Club of Louisville Charity Fund Inc

Support for local charities providing services improving the community in which we live.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Community Improvement$695kEducation$25kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $40,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $45,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$494k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL ADULT LEARN-TO-SWIM$10,000
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ART CENTER$10,000
ADELANTE HISPANIC ACHEIVERS$10,000
SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHOOSEWELL COMMUNITIES INC: $10k → 15%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 15%SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Worksite Wellness Council of Louisville
Health
2
Bring Me a Book St Louis

Support childhood literacy

Youth Development
3
Love the Lou
Community Improvement
4
Cinderellas Closet of Northern Kentucky
5
Kids Like Us Community Learning Center
6
Louisville Community Food Pantry Inc

The Louisville Community Food Pantry, Inc. is a non-profit organization providing supplemental groceries to families and individuals in Jefferson County who are in need. We provide food in a way that supports and sustains the dignity of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Lift Up Lexington Inc

Operation Secret Santa delivers Christmas magic by meeting families exactly where they are; right at their doorstep. Our mission is to remove all barriers to access by providing gifts food and essential support directly to households…

Human Services
8
Kids Community Learning Center

The mission of Kids Community Learning Center is to provide a nurturing environment in which kids grow together outside of school time through creative exploration, meaningful relationships, and fun. After-school and summer programs…

Education
9
Little Imaginations Early Learning Center

Child care for teen parents and low income families

Education
10
Louisville Eagles Athletic Club in
Recreation & Sports
11
Core Connections Kids Learning Cent

Provides education program for families

Human Services
12
Louisville Preschool Inc

Preschool and daycare center

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Woman's Club of Louisville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Uniting Partners for Women and Children. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WOMAN'S CLUB OF LOUISVILLE INC — $695,379 · Community ImprovementTHE WOMAN'S CLUB OF LOUISVILLE INCSANTAS LITTLE HELPERS INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Human ServicesChooseWell Communities Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesUniting Partners for Women and Children — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CATHOLIC CENTER INC — $10,000 · EducationIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC — $10,000 · EducationSTEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherENGELHARD ELEMENTARY (JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS) — $5,077 · OtherCENTRAL ADULT LEARN-TO-SWIM INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS INC — $10,000 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$695,379Human Services$30,000Education$20,000Other$15,077Recreation & Sports$10,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WOMAN'S CLUB OF LOUISVILLE INC — $695,379 over 2y, 56% of budgetSANTAS LITTLE HELPERS INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetSTEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCENTRAL ADULT LEARN-TO-SWIM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATHOLIC CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetChooseWell Communities Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children — $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Woman's Club of Louisville Charity Fund 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Woman's Club of Louisville Charity Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Woman's Club of Louisville Charity Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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