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Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation at a glance

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Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$257k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$289kHealth$264kHuman Services$230kYouth Development$203kHousing & Shelter$107kArts & Culture$56kReligion$55kCivil Rights$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILDEGARD HOUSE$50,000
CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE$27,000
PASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER$15,000
FOOD LITERACY PROJECT AT OXMOOR FARM INC$15,000
KENTUCKY HUMANITIES COUNCIL$13,060
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKY$12,500
LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
CARRIAGE HOUSE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES$10,000
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE$10,000
FAMILY COMMUNITY CLINIC$10,000
WELLSPRING INC$10,000
AWAKE MINISTRIES$10,000
OPERATION OPEN ARMS$9,000
SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AWAKE MINISTRIES: $10k → 9%PILLAR: $3k → 4%REVIVING URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $11k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $10k → 15%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $5k → 15%UP FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $3k → 15%EXODUS FAMILY MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $10k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $8k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $27k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $15k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $13k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $13k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE: $5k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $3k → 15%CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%HOSPARUS: $10k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE: $10k → 15%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE: $5k → 15%LOVE CITY: $15k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$988k · 44 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
49

Total granted

$988k
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
0%

Still filing today

75%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +33%
  • CP
    CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +68%
  • CP
    Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
  • HH
    HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +151%
  • B
    BLACKACRE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky Inc

Goodwill's mission is to help people with disabilities or other disadvantages achieve and maintain employment to gain a better quality of life.

Employment
2
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
3
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
4
Day Spring Inc

Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…

Human Services
5
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kentucky Inc

Children's advocacy centers of kentucky, inc. seeks to build relationships at the state and national levels by collaborating with partners which will benefit the work of kentucky child advocacy centers.

Crime & Legal
6
Louisville Collegiate School

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

Education
7
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
8
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

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9
Independent Living Options Inc

Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.

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10
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
11
Thrive By 5 Louisville Inc

Thrive by 5 louisville is making early learning a top priority for louisville, breaking down barriers for the future of our children and city.

Education
12
Children's Alliance Incorporated

Shape public policy and practice to improve the well-being of kentucky's at-risk children and families through advocacy, leadership, collaboration, and education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 98 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
44/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $55,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN SOCIETY: $50,000 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC ORPHAN SOCIETYKentucky Humanities Council Inc: $35,520 · OtherTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $31,877 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $25,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS HAVEN: $25,000 · OtherPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN: $35,000 · OtherWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $25,000 · Other+42 more: $383,940 · Other+42 moreCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $81,000 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SETTL…the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $33,000 · Human Servicesthe Young Men's Chr…THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $18,334 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INN…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S…Love City Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesLove City IncPAWS WITH PURPOSE INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUniting Partners for Women and Children: $10,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $18,200 · Human Services+4 moreKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $95,000 · EducationKENTUCKY WESLEYA…ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLL…TEACH KENTUCKY INC: $18,000 · EducationTEACH KENTUCKY I…UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE: $10,000 · EducationMATTINGLY EDGE INC: $10,000 · EducationEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $10,000 · EducationYOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INC: $10,000 · Education+5 more: $20,500 · Education+5 moreCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $43,045 · HealthCerebral P…Family Community Clinic Inc: $25,000 · HealthFamily Com…Down Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $15,000 · HealthDown Syndr…USPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $15,000 · HealthUSPIRITUS …Spina Bifida Association of Kentucky Inc: $10,500 · HealthSpina Bifi…FEAT OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 · HealthFEAT OF LO…HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthGreen Hill Therapy Inc: $5,000 · HealthHOUSE OF RUTH INC: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET: $5,000 · Arts & CultureACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTAGEONE FAMILY THEATRE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureRADIO EYE INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,600 · Arts & CultureHildegard House Incorporated: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterUSA CARES INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $19,200 · Civil Rights
Other$666,337Human Services$252,534Education$213,500Health$134,545Arts & Culture$66,600Housing & Shelter$62,500Civil Rights$44,200

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 budgetKENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $81,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHildegard House Incorporated: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $43,045 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Humanities Council Inc: $35,520 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN: $35,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC: $31,877 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Community Clinic Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $19,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $19,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $18,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH KENTUCKY INC: $18,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetST JOHN CENTER INC: $16,890 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDown Syndrome of Louisville Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUSPIRITUS INC (BELLEWOOD & BROOKLAWN): $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLove City Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION OPEN ARMS INC: $12,100 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPAWS WITH PURPOSE INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTALBOT HOUSE INC: $11,220 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSpina Bifida Association of Kentucky Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMATTINGLY EDGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEAT OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG AUTHORS GREENHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY HARVEST INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWORKWELL INDUSTRIES INC: $6,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAVE A HEART FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGreen Hill Therapy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 Gheens Foundation…Cralle Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …Honorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…Kosair Charities Comm…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…V V Cooke Foundation …Republic Bank Foundat…The Whas Crusade for …
The Gheens Foundation IncKY112.8× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc

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 Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation 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 98 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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