· Private foundation
J Rogers Badgett Sr 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 $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $380k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $575k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPKINS COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $400,000 |
| MSU FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| MARYHURST INC | $100,000 |
| MADISONVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $72,611 |
| WKU COLLEGE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $67,369 |
| CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK | $60,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $50,000 |
| MADISONVILLE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WKU FOUNDATION | $43,344 |
| LIFEHOUSE MATERNITY HOME | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $40,000 |
| HOPKINS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $36,000 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,391 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| BRIDGE HAVEN INC | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $673k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 94% of those 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- MSMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +14%
- HCHopkins County Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $630k · revenue +99%
- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $600k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR GIFTED STUDIESone grant, 2020 · $20k
- HCHOPKINS COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $11k
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 mission of lindsey wilson university is to serve the educational needs of students by providing a living-learning environment within an atmosphere of active caring and christian concern where every student, every day, learns and grows…
The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Mississippi college is a private, co-educational, comprehensive university of liberal arts and sciences and professional studies dedicated to the pursuit of academic excellence. founded in 1826, mississippi college is the oldest…
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…
University of mount olive, inc. is a christian faith-based, values centered private institution rooted in the liberal arts tradition. we serve our students, our founding church, and our communities.
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
The purpose of methodist university is to provide an undergraduate and graduate education firmly grounded in the liberal arts tradition, that nurtures moral values & ethical decision-making; to provide distinctive professional & graduate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbellsville University Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Open Arms 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 48 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 MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hopkins County Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville Fo ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Campbellsville University Inc ↗
- Who funds Madisonville College Foundation ↗
- Who funds METHODIST HOME OF KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION OPEN ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISONVILLE-HOPKINS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · Owensboro Health Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 J Rogers Badgett Sr 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.