· Private foundation
Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOPE CENTER | $360,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY | $200,000 |
| UK MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS | $50,000 |
| ONE PARENT SCHOLAR HOUSE | $25,000 |
| TROY DREAM CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| TOWN BRANCH PARK | $20,000 |
| JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON | $15,000 |
| CHRYSALIS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| OPERALEX ENCORE | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BLUEGRASS INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS | $10,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $884k · revenue +109%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $785k · revenue +118%
- TLTHE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- KCKENTUCKY CONFERENCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $100k
- OEOPERALEX ENCORE 2022one grant, 2022 · $5k
- OIOPERALEX INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +64%
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 reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…
The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.
The shelter of hope's mission is to provide temporary, emergency shelter and permanent housing assistance for individuals and families in need of transitional services leading them to self-sufficiency. provisions are made without…
Provides shelter for the homeless
The mission of Baptist Health is to exemplify our Christian heritage of providing quality healthcare services by enhancing the physical & emotional health of the people & communities we serve, guided by integrity, respect, stewardship,…
Our mission is to provide high-quality recovery housing and recovery support services to individuals struggling with substance use disorder in Tennessee. We believe that our actions speak louder than our words. Since our inception in 2021,…
The Mend House is a sober living community for men, in Knoxville, Tn. which empowers them to gain control over their actions, decisions and choices. The Mend House allows men to enjoy clean, sober and stable housing for up to 2 years while…
Operation Secret Santa delivers Christmas magic by meeting families exactly where they are; right at their doorstep. Our mission is to remove all barriers to access by providing gifts food and essential support directly to households…
To provide residential recover programs to and rehabilitate individuals dealing with substance abuse addictions to enter society as productive members
The mission of the organization is to meet the housing needs of low- income families in lewis county through home repairs and rehabilitation, new home construction, managing and maintaining affordable rental housing by providing rental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grin Grant Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE PARENT FAMILY FACILITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE HEARTS AND HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds TROY DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds Grin Grant Inc ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERALEX INC ↗
- Who funds UNITING VOICES ↗
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 · Baird Foundation Inc · Alex G Campbell Jr Foundation Inc · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Hilary Boone Foundation Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Don Jacobs Sr Charitable 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.