· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BLUEGRASS INC | $10,000 |
| CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS | $10,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +64% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Don Jacobs Sr Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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