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Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc

Louisville, KY · EIN 47-5625690. Reported 61 grants totalling $1,533,750 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$1,533,750granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$12.0Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $200 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
6 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Sufism ReorientedWalnut Creek, CA$350,000222022
White Pony ExpressWalnut Creek, CA$210,000442024
Norton Children's Hospital FoundationLouisville, KY$180,000112024
Women Forward InternationalWashington, DC$160,000222022
Mission Teens IncGlendora, NJ$100,000112024
Token III ClubLouisville, KY$70,000442024
Have a Heart ClinicLouisville, KY$40,000332023
Renaissance ChurchBakersfield, CA$40,000222022
Westend Token ClubLouisville, KY$35,000222023
Beacon HouseWashington, DC$30,000112024
Passionist Earth & Spirit CenterLouisville, KY$30,000222023
Humnane Rescue AllianceWashington, DC$26,250222023
American HumaneWashington, DC$25,800332023
Speed Art MuseumLouisville, KY$25,000112024
Commonwealth Theatre Center IncLouisville, KY$20,000112024
Following FrancisLayfayette, CA$20,000112022
Living Church of God InternationalCharlotte, NC$20,000112023
Save the Children Federation IncFairfield, CT$20,000222024
Waldorf School of LouisvilleLouisville, KY$20,000332023
Horsesensing IncShelbyville, KY$15,000222023
Best Friends Animal SocietyKanab, UT$14,500442024
Shower UpSpring Hill, TN$11,000222024
Beacon House Aftercare Program IncLouisville, KY$10,000112021
Bread of Life Christian Center IncColumbus, GA$10,000112024
Family Scholar House IncLouisville, KY$10,000112024
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$10,000112024
Highpoint Charitable ServicesLagrange, KY$5,000112021
NAMI KentuckyLexington, KY$5,000112021
Warrior Canine ConnectionBoyds, MD$5,000112021
Women for Women InternationalWashington, DC$5,000112024
Yall Squad IncorporatedPikeville, KY$5,000112023
Hands on NashvilleNashville, TN$2,000112021
New Leash on Life USAGilbert, AZ$2,000112022
Mountain of MercyHoney Dew, CA$1,000112021
St Jude Children's HospitalMemphis, TN$1,000222023
Friends of Ostomates WorldwideLouisville, KY$200112021

16 of 36 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
9 grants
Animal Welfare
7 grants
International Affairs
6 grants
Religion
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202118$420,200$7,500
202214$464,250$10,625
202315$189,300$6,000
202414$460,000$15,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 40% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$621K
Kentucky
$470K
District of Columbia
$247K
New Jersey
$100K
Tennessee
$24K
North Carolina
$20K
Connecticut
$20K
Utah
$14K

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Funders that support the same organizations

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Hearts Path Charitable Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5900 US Highway 42 2000, Louisville, KY, 40241. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 47-5625690 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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