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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $40,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $45,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$494k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ART CENTER$10,000
ADELANTE HISPANIC ACHEIVERS$10,000
CENTRAL ADULT LEARN-TO-SWIM$10,000
SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS$10,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 15%CHOOSEWELL COMMUNITIES INC: $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
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 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
Bring Me a Book St Louis

Support childhood literacy

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Woman's Club of Louisville Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY CATHOLIC CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationSTEAM EXCHANGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherENGELHARD ELEMENTARY (JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS): $5,077 · OtherADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL ADULT LEARN-TO-SWIM INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Community Improvement$695,379Human Services$30,000Education$20,000Other$15,077Youth Development$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATHOLIC CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetADELANTE HISPANIC ACHIEVERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetChooseWell Communities Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCENTRAL ADULT LEARN-TO-SWIM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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.

The Community Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …Metro United Way IncThe Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Woman's Club of Louisville Charity Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Woman's Club of Louisville Charity Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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