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Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation at a glance

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Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$128k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$123kEducation$118kEnvironment$110kArts & Culture$75kReligion$51kAnimals$50kHuman Services$20kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $108k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$126k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUEGRASS CONSERVANCY$20,000
MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION$15,000
MIDWAY UNIVERSITY$12,500
KENTUCKY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND$10,000
GRAYSON JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION$10,000
PISGAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST$10,000
LACEY'S LEGACY WESTERN RIDING$10,000
KENTUCKY RACE TRACK CHAPLAINCY$5,000
MIDDLE GROUND CAPITAL CHARITIBLE FOUNDATION$5,000
MENTORS AND MEALS$5,000
SPARK COMMUNITY CAFE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLUE GRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $1k → 15%MIDDLE GROUND CAPITAL CHARITIBLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$484k · 12 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$484k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionReligionAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +118%
  • MU
    MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +51%
  • BL
    BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +656%

Funded once

  • BG
    BLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • SW
    SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -41%
  • KH
    KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kentucky Racing Health and Welfare Fund Inc

To provide exclusively for the benefit, aid, relief, and assistance of the racing personnel employed in connection with horse racing who can demonstrate their need for financial assistance.

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2
Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Foundation Inc

Kentucky thoroughbred owners & breeders foundation, inc. (ktob foundation) supports and funds equine research, in particular research to study and find a prevention or cure to the condition in horses commonly known as mare reproductive…

Animals
3
The Keep Foundation Inc

Educating the public about the importance of the horse industry to kentucky and providing non-profit equine organizations with funding for horse shows.

Education
4
Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Inc

Facilitate agricultural and rural business development in kentucky by 1) providing leadership, educational, technical and financial resources and 2) improving the economic conditions of rural kentucky through promoting development of new…

Food & Nutrition
5
Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance Foundation

To support those in need and improve the quality of life throughout the commonwealth of kentucky.

Education
6
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
7
Kentucky Executive Mansions Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Triangle Foundation Inc

Support projects that beautify and promote the rich kentucky heritage.

Recreation & Sports
9
Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc

The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.

Community Improvement
10
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
11
Woods and Waters Land Trust Inc

Wwlt's mission is to establish conservation easements in the lower kentucky river region for the myriad of benefits that result from effective land conservation and protection. wwlt seeks to meet these objectives by focusing on three main…

Environment
12
Kentucky Equine Management Internship Program Inc

To provide an educational program that will enable students to gain a hands-on knowledge of the equine industry and apply what they learn in a classroom out on a farm exposing them to day-to-day operations of a farm and the overall…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horse Country Inc; the most unlike its peers is Middleground Capital Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $111,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATI…PISGAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherPISGAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND: $10,000 · OtherLACEY'S LEGACY WESTERN RIDING: $10,000 · OtherKENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $34,000 · Other+9 moreMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $77,500 · EducationMIDWAY UNIVERSITY IN…Mentors and Meals Inc: $25,000 · EducationMentors and Meals In…+1 more: $2,500 · EducationKENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY HIS…BLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE GRASS T…BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentBLUEGRASS L…AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $50,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN F…SPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSPARK COMM…GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · AnimalsGRAYSON-J…Woodford Humane Society Inc: $20,000 · AnimalsWoodford …Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc: $20,000 · ReligionBLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC: $1,000 · Religion
Other$235,700Education$105,000Arts & Culture$65,000Environment$60,000Food & Nutrition$55,000Animals$50,000Religion$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $111,700 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $77,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMentors and Meals Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetKentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWoodford Humane Society Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHORSE COUNTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECRETARIAT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMIDDLEGROUND CAPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community …The Community Foundat…The Mt Brilliant Fami…Mary K Oxley Foundati…Thoroughbred Charitie…The Community Foundat…Isaac Van Meter IV Fa…Rosenstein Family Cha…Christian Word Minist…Misdee Wrigley and Ja…Keeneland Foundation …W L Lyons Brown Found…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation) · Mary K Oxley Foundation · Thoroughbred Charities of America Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Isaac Van Meter IV Fam Fund Inc Agy · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Misdee Wrigley and James Mather Miller Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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