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CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION

CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,174 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($126,110). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$366k
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$605k
Net assets
$724k
14/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Cave Hill Heritage Foundation does

Mission

The heritage foundation is organized and operated for the benefit of cave hill cemetery company and the community. The foundation will ensure that the historical and cultural elements of the cemetery are preserved. These preservation efforts will include restoration of artifacts, I.e. Monuments, stone gating, educating, and geneological and historical research endeavors. Funding from the foundation will also be used to preserve the arboretum and wildlife habitat of the cemetery.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cave hill cemetery preservation, educational tours, and grief recognition programs

    $306,415 spent$27,427 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $306,415.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($170k) Expenses 100 ($185k) Net assets 100 ($491k)2018 Revenue 132 ($224k) Expenses 123 ($227k) Net assets 99 ($487k)2019 Revenue 103 ($176k) Expenses 106 ($196k) Net assets 95 ($468k)2020 Revenue 125 ($213k) Expenses 123 ($226k) Net assets 93 ($454k)2021 Revenue 207 ($351k) Expenses 114 ($211k) Net assets 121 ($595k)2022 Revenue 169 ($286k) Expenses 184 ($340k) Net assets 110 ($541k)2023 Revenue 243 ($413k) Expenses 108 ($200k) Net assets 155 ($759k)2024 Revenue 216 ($366k) Expenses 220 ($405k) Net assets 147 ($724k)
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Revenue (216)Expenses (220)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $544k to $768k (+41%).

$493k
$495k
$473k
$459k
$604k
$544k
$768k
$746k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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2018
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2021
2022
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,023 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$15k
’17
−$4k
’18
−$20k
’19
−$13k
’20
$140k
’21
−$54k
’22
$214k
’23
−$39k
’24
15
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Gwen Mooney

President/CEO

Board chair

Carl S Thomas

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $18k → $79k.

6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION.

21%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 71% · 2019 51% · 2020 31% · 2021 35% · 2022 37% · 2023 32% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

60% of CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

IN
OH
PA
CT
KY
DE
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,872 membership benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve15.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,872 membership benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 13%Fundraising 12%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

78%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Cave Hill Cemetery Co · exempt
  • Cave Hill Investment Co · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Kentucky) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $605,174 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ($126,110). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $605,174 in grants to CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $126,110 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAVE HILL HERITAGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing