Kentucky · Nonprofit
GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,087,100 to it, the largest being THE GHEENS FOUNDATION INC ($450,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Brown-Forman Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Norton Healthcare Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $153k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $408k from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC’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
GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 36% · 2022 71% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“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 GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
69% of GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Brown-Forman Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchKY · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Norton Healthcare Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchKY · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 120 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchKY · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Legacy Foundation of Kentuckiana Inclocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Greater St Louis Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jumpstart Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Civic Progress Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issuesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cincinnati Regional Business Committeeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Norton Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- C E and S Foundation Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 72 organizations near you
- Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Incshared funderslocalKY · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- Department of Commerce$90k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Louisville Area Chamber of Commerce Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC?
- GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,087,100 to it, the largest being THE GHEENS FOUNDATION INC ($450,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,087,100 in grants to GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE GHEENS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing