FundersKentucky

Robert and Faye

Louisville, KY · EIN 47-4241732. Reported 142 grants totalling $249,017 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$249,017granted, 2021-2024
60organizations funded
74%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,512,104assets, 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. Robert and Faye 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 $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,300; the smallest was $50 and the largest $6,350. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
34 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
98 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 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
The Fuller Center for HousingLouisville, KY$17,000442024
Dare to Care FoodbankLouisville, KY$13,000332023
Kid's Cancer AllianceLouisville, KY$12,500332024
Ronald Mcdonald HouseLouisville, KY$12,500442024
Family Scholar HouseLouisville, KY$10,000442024
Home of the InnocentsLouisville, KY$10,000442024
Norton Children's Hospital FoundationLouisville, KY$10,000222023
Habitat for Humanity Metro LouisviileLouisville, KY$9,500442024
Boys & Girls HavenLouisville, KY$9,000332023
The Healing PlaceLouisville, KY$8,103442024
Wayside Christian MissionLouisville, KY$8,000442024
Youthbuild LouisvilleLouisville, KY$7,000442024
Cedar Lake FoundationLouisville, KY$6,400442024
American Junior Golf AssociationBraselton, GA$6,000442024
Catholic Education FoundationLouisville, KY$6,000442024
Holy Trinity Catholic ChurchLouisville, KY$6,000332023
Speed Art MuseumLouisville, KY$6,000332023
WellspringLouisville, KY$6,000332024
Norton Children's HospitalLouisville, KY$5,000112021
Beacon HouseLouisville, KY$4,300222022
Family & Children's PlaceLouisville, KY$4,000222023
The Als Association Kentucky ChapterLouisville, KY$4,000442024
Meredith Dunn SchoolLouisville, KY$3,500112023
Twisted PinkLouisville, KY$3,500442024
Alzheimer's Association Greater Ky ChapterLouisville, KY$3,000332023
Boys & Girls Club of KentuckianaLouisville, KY$3,000112022
Brown Cancer CenterLouisville, KY$3,000112023
Greenhill TherapyLouisville, KY$3,000112022
Heuser Hearing and Language AcademyLouisville, KY$3,000332023
Kosair CharitiesLouisville, KY$3,000332023
St Vincent De PaulLouisville, KY$3,000332023
U of L Foundation - Bank of AmericaLouisville, KY$3,000112023
USA Cares IncLouisville, KY$3,000332024
Visually Impaired PreschoolLouisville, KY$3,000332023
Virginia Chance SchoolLouisville, KY$2,525222024
Kid's Center for Pediatric TherapiesLouisville, KY$2,300112022
Leukemia and Lymphoma SocietyLexington, KY$2,300112024
The Parklands of Floyds ForkLouisville, KY$2,250112024
Western Kentucky Relief FundFrankfort, KY$2,209112022
Cathedral of AssumptionLouisville, KY$2,000112022
Harbor House of Louisville IncLouisville, KY$2,000442024
Ky Humane Society of LouisvilleLouisville, KY$2,000222022
Building Industry Charitable FoundationLouisville, KY$1,600332024
Challenge for ChanceLouisville, KY$1,500112022
Lexington Catholic High SchoolLexington, KY$1,500222023
The Coalition for the HomelessLouisville, KY$1,500332023
United Way of KentuckyLouisville, KY$1,110112022
J Graham Brown School PtsaLouisville, KY$1,000222023
Meredeth Dunn SchoolLouisville, KY$1,000112021
St Xavier High SchoolLouisville, KY$1,000222024
Up for Women & ChildrenLouisville, KY$1,000112022
Kentucky Ccim ChapterLouisville, KY$900112022
Fraternal Order of PoliceLouisville, KY$500332024
St Xavier Annual FundLouisville, KY$500112021
Kosair Shrine CircusLouisville, KY$300332023
Feat of LouisvilleLouisville, KY$270112021
Persimmon Ridge Ladies Golf AssociationLouisville, KY$250112024
Louisville Fraternal Order of PoliceLouisville, KY$100112021
Down Syndrome of LouisvilleLouisville, KY$50112021
Norton Healthcare FoundatationLouisville, KY$50112021

38 of 60 (63%) 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 74%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 70 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
21 grants
Health Care
10 grants
Housing & Shelter
10 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Education
7 grants
Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Civil Rights
4 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202135$59,373$1,500
202246$84,569$1,500
202337$68,700$1,500
202424$36,375$1,262

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. 98% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kentucky. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Kentucky
$243K
Georgia
$6K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Community Foundation of26 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Louisville22 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund22 shared recipientsMightycause Charitable Foundation20 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc18 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. 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 Kentucky.
  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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Robert and Faye'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: 12488 Lagrange Road, Louisville, KY, 40245. 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 47-4241732 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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