· Private foundation
Fj Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Music Haven | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,650 |
| Oldham County Arts Association | $15,025 |
| McPherson College | $15,000 |
| University of Cincinnati | $12,903 |
| Fort Thomas Independent Schools | $11,900 |
| Winners Circle Robotics | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Neo Engineering League of America | $10,000 |
| KY First Robotics | $6,500 |
| Louisville Youth Orchestra | $5,000 |
| Western Kentucky University | $5,000 |
| Ayden Finley Altman Welding Dreams Inc | $5,000 |
| LaGrange Railroad Museum | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 64% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- MHMUSIC HAVEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +142%
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +129%
- SCSavannah College of Art and DesignInc3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- AMADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +44%
- BHBaptist Health Foundationone grant, 2023 · $14k
- CHCentral High School Robotics Teamone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
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Bridgewater college educates the whole person by providing a challenging and supportive learning community that fosters the growth of its students and empowers and motivates them to live educated, intelligent, healthy, purposeful and…
Haverford college is committed to providing a liberal arts education in the broadest sense. this education, based on a rich academic curriculum at its core, is distinguished by a commitment to excellence and a concern for individual…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Moore is dedicated to excellence in art and design. Founded in 1848, Moore is the first and only visual arts college for women in the US. With its undergraduate BFA degree for women and coeducational graduate programs, Moore cultivates…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Herb Society of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ohio Valley Educational Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 37 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 WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds OLDHAM COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE-JEFFERSON COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Ky FIRST Robotics Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERB SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Valley Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds John C Campbell Folk School Inc ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
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: LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Fj 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.
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
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.