Kentucky · 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $360,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $1.0M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $668k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $670k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $545k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $507k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $2.1M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hope Center Inc | $883,500 | 7 | 2% |
| University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc | $784,929 | 6 | 12% |
| The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 14% |
| One Parent Family Facility Corporation | $130,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Worldwide Hearts and Hands Inc | $110,000 | 7 | 13% |
| Town Branch Park Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chrysalis House Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jubilee Jobs of Lexington Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Troy Dream Center Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hope Center Inc | $883,500 | 7 | 2% |
| University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc | $784,929 | 6 | 12% |
| The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 14% |
| One Parent Family Facility Corporation | $130,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Worldwide Hearts and Hands Inc | $110,000 | 7 | 13% |
| Town Branch Park Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Chrysalis House Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jubilee Jobs of Lexington Inc | $47,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Troy Dream Center Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Development Centers of the Bluegrass Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Grin Grant Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 1% |
| God's Pantry Food Bank Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Operalex Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Uniting Voices | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $1,010,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Health (25%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Hope Center Inc ($884k), University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc ($785k), The Lexington Cancer Foundation Inc ($150k).
- Does Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, Alex G Campbell Jr Foundation Inc.
- Where is Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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