Kentucky · Nonprofit
THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC
THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,500 to it, the largest being NICKLIES FOUNDATION INC ($23,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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
- The Gheens Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Metro United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE 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
THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
47% 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 THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Brown-Forman Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchKY · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Gheens Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchKY · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 234 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Metro United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchKY · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 205 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Norton Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchKY · funds 56 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lena Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agenda for Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Milestones Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Learning Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William E Barth Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Years Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE 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 THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC?
- THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,500 to it, the largest being NICKLIES FOUNDATION INC ($23,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,500 in grants to THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE INC?
- NICKLIES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THRIVE BY 5 LOUISVILLE 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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