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Tom Drexler Charitable Trust at a glance

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Tom Drexler Charitable Trust

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MReligion$260kRecreation & Sports$250kHuman Services$120kHealth$105kEducation$103kPublic Benefit$100kCivil Rights$35k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$55,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$55,000
HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE$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 (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, 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%GIVING HOPE NOLA: $100k → 23%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
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
The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc

To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.

Philanthropy
2
Greater Louisville Sports Commission Inc

To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.

Recreation & Sports
3
Greater Louisville Foundation Inc

Identify, mobilize, and fund programs to address louisville's greatest challenges regarding business growth and increased economic prosperity for all citizens in the greater louisville region.

Community Improvement
4
Catholic Education Foundation Inc

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…

Education
5
C I R C L E

Facilitate connections between inclusive, responsive communities who are leading education. CIRCLE creates, implements and supports sustainability and partnerships for individuals and organizations committed to equity and inclusiveness.

Education
6
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
7
Circle Health Services

Circle Health fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.

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8
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
9
Circle of Concern

Circle of concern feeds the hungry and provides assistance to low-income families living in west st. louis county.

Human Services
10
Central Louisville Community Ministries Inc

Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.

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11
Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc

The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.

Community Improvement
12
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INCSOUTHEAST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $260,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST CHRISTIAN …THE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE CIRCLE FOUNDATIO…GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $25,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCK…502CIRCLE NIL COLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Recreation & Sports502CIRCLE NIL…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationGiving Hope Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,000 · HealthKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC: $25,000 · HealthHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $35,000 · Civil RightsThe Potter's Wheel Inc: $20,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$1,200,000Other$385,000Recreation & Sports$250,000Education$102,500Human Services$100,000Health$80,000Civil Rights$35,000Religion$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGiving Hope Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CIRCLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Potter's Wheel Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCRIMSON MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 13% 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…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository IncKY13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Tom Drexler Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom Drexler Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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