· Private foundation
Tom Musselman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k12 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $606k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH | $211,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE | $182,500 |
| SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $160,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $52,000 |
| DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| PITT ACADEMY | $16,432 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $12,500 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR GREAT APES | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CSZ FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO | $7,500 |
| WENDY NOVAK DIABETES INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| NAZARETH HOMES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +80% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- DTDARE TO CARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +38%
- CECATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +189%
- BUBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE MEN AND WOMEN'S GOLFone grant, 2022 · $35k
- 1F1619 FLUXone grant, 2018 · $15k
- CSCATHOLIC SERVICES APPEALone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 21ST Century Parks Inc and the most unlike its peers is VOLLEY4LIFE. 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 31 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 68 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
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 DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE PORCINIFARMER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds CSZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PITT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds NORTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Twisted Pink Inc ↗
- Who funds The Youth Mental Health Project ↗
- Who funds Water By Women ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ACADEMY OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds SMC REGINA'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDEN PEOPLEPLANET ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Barbara and Albert Horton Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kirchdorfer 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 Tom Musselman Foundation 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.
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.