· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +117%
- BHBaptist Health Foundationone grant, 2023 · $14k
- CHCentral High School Robotics Teamone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 37 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fj Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fj Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Music Haven Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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