Kentucky · Nonprofit
SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,948 to it, the largest being METRO UNITED WAY INC ($219,667). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What South Louisville Community Ministries Inc does
Mission
To empower our neighbors in crisis to move toward stability and self- sufficiency. We do this by demonstrating respectful compassion; practicing faithful stewardship; and providing: -emergency assistance with food, medicine, housing and utilities -comprehensive referral services and partnerships (individual, family and marriage counseling) -daily enrichment services for senior adults
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The emergency assistance program works to meet the basic individual needs of those families in the south end who are facing a financial crisis. The program works to stabilize the family by providing financial assistance with utility bills payments and medical needs. For those neighbors in case management through our neighbor network, we are able to provide assistance for additional needs as well, for example transportation and clothing items, needed for work placement as well as expansive resource navigation and advocacy. The emergency assistance program receives inquiries for financial assistance from around 200 families each month, and this program assists in providing not only financial assistance but referral services to those families as well. For example, slcm sends weekly resource newsletters to over 5,800 individuals. In addition, the program maintains an extensive, full "choice" selection dare to care pantry that distributes canned goods, frozen meat products, refrigerated dairy products, fresh produce, infant supplies, clothing vouchers, tarc passes, pet food, and personal hygiene/household items. Over the last year, the pantry has been serving around 280 food orders…
$1,941,342 spentof which $823,745 as grants91% of program spendingMeals on wheels provides meals and friendly visits to homebound seniors in south louisville with a goal to increase nutritional health and provide personal interaction. This program relies on volunteers who deliver approximately 2290 lunches a month. Throughout the year, slcm volunteers delivered frozen meals to our frail, home bound elderly in the south end of louisville. During the year, 151 seniors were provided a total of 27,485 meals. For two routes, the food and funding is provided by mary and elizabeth hospital/university of louisville health, while for the other eight routes the food is provided by mastersons' catering with coordination and funding provided by the louisville metro senior nutrition program and kipda. Additionally, we deliver specialized boxes of non- perishable usda commodities to approximately 20 seniors each month. This year, we also provided 211 senior commodity boxes to our home-bound seniors in partnership with dare to care and usda. Connected with our choice pantry, we provide delivery service of pantry groceries to our homebound families as well (about 45 each month) alongside these services, we offer telephone check-ins to provide support and…
$121,985 spent6% of program spendingVolunteers are vital to the work of south louisville community ministries. They deliver meals-on-wheels and groceries to homebound seniors, provide organization and neighbor support in our pantry, transport donations, assist with reception, help with annual fundraisers, and handle the day to day operations of the rosewater bookstore. During the past fiscal year, volunteers provided over 7,200 hours of their time to ensure our neighbors were fed, and all of our programs ran smoothly.
$41,412 spent2% of program spendingThe rosewater bookstore is a volunteer-powered social enterprise that provides free community space, workforce development opportunities, and emergency assistance to neighbors in crisis.
$22,231 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,126,970.
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.
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 $724k to $1.1M (+47%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 19% · 2023 27% · 2024 44% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $27k → $197k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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: $2.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Association of Community Ministries Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES 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
SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
68% 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 SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 64% · 2019 37% · 2020 27% · 2021 24% · 2022 54% · 2023 29% — 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 SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
91% of SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES 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. $249k 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.
Organizations like SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC
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In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- Association of Community Ministries · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC?
- SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,442,948 to it, the largest being METRO UNITED WAY INC ($219,667). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,442,948 in grants to SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC?
- METRO UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $219,667 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES 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.
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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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing