· Private foundation
Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +118%
- MUMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +51%
- BLBLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +656%
Funded once
- BGBLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +40%
- KHKENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SWSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -41%
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.
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.
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…
Educating the public about the importance of the horse industry to kentucky and providing non-profit equine organizations with funding for horse shows.
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…
To support those in need and improve the quality of life throughout the commonwealth of kentucky.
Support projects that beautify and promote the rich kentucky heritage.
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horse Country Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mentors and Meals Inc ↗
- Who funds Kentucky Race Track Chaplaincy Inc ↗
- Who funds Woodford Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECRETARIAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HORSE COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK COMMUNITY CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEGROUND CAPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS FARMS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Bluegrass 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: 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
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 Brereton & Elizabeth Jones Charitable Family Foundation 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.