· Private foundation
J Rogers Badgett Sr 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $630k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MSU FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| MADISONVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $133,546 |
| HOPKINS COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION | $111,000 |
| HOPKINS COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $100,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $100,000 |
| WKU COLLEGE HEIGHTS FOUNDATION | $70,905 |
| CHRISTIAN FOOD BANK | $65,000 |
| MARYHURST INC | $50,000 |
| KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $40,664 |
| LIFEHOUSE MATERNITY HOME | $40,000 |
| MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY | $34,124 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| BRIDGEHAVEN INC | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH DEACONESS MADISONVILLE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $788k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +14%
- HCHopkins County Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc5× · 2018–2025 · $730k · revenue +71%
- CSCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $625k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- BHBRIDGE HAVEN INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -6%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR GIFTED STUDIESone grant, 2020 · $20k
- HCHOPKINS COUNTY IMAGINATION LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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…
The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
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…
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.
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.
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
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…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 56 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 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 BRIDGEHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION OPEN ARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISONVILLE-HOPKINS COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J Rogers Badgett Sr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Rogers Badgett Sr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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