· Private foundation
Bonhomme Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF LOUISVILLE | $7,000 |
| KENESETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $6,911 |
| METRO UNITED WAY | $6,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE | $1,025 |
| CONGREGATION ADATH JESHURUN | $680 |
| Individual grant recipient | $523 |
| LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTER | $500 |
| WEST END SCHOOL | $500 |
| HALTER | $500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL - GREENVILLE SC | $500 |
| CONGREGATION ANSHEI SFARD | $400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +47%
- EJEDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +85%
- JHJEWISH HERITAGE MITZVAH FUND INC4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +2%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -33%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -51%
- BEBELEV ECHAD INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The Richmond Jewish Foundation is a primary, trusted and expert resource for planned giving and endowments. We engage, educate and inspire generations of donors to create ongoing resources for charitable, religious, and educational needs.…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
The organization works to inspire and empower educators and institutions to create transformative jewish learning experiences for children, teens, and families. building on its historic role serving jewish day schools, congregations, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community of Louisville Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tikvah Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HERITAGE MITZVAH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds HALTER (HEALING AND LEARNING THROUGH EQUINE RELATIONSHIPS) ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST FORUM ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TISBEST PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds THE FILSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Inc · Charles L Weisberg Family Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Brown-Forman Foundation · Julia & Isadore Klein Family Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Rudd Foundation Inc · Isadore & Rose Goldstein Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bonhomme Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.