· Private foundation
James a Myers Charitable Memorial Trust
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of JAMES A MYERS CHARITABLE MEMORIAL TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REITENOUR CEMETERY INC | $13,000 |
| RANDOLPH CENTRAL SCHOOL CORP | $12,200 |
| Randolph County 4-H Club Inc Future Need | $10,000 |
| WOODLAWN CEMETERY | $5,000 |
| RANDOLPH COUNTY YMCA | $4,000 |
| LYNN FRIENDS CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LAWNDALE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| RANDOLPH COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $2,310 |
| RANDOLPH COUNTY YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| Randolph County United Mission | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- RCREITENOUR CEMETERY INC6× · 2019–2025 · $67k
- RCRandolph Central School Corp4× · 2019–2025 · $33k
- WCWOODLAWN CEMETERY2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
Funded once
- FPFOUNTAIN PARK CEMETERY ASSOCIAone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -7%
- WFWINCHESTER FOUNDATION WORKSHOPone grant, 2019 · $5k
- JMJAMES MOORMAN ORPHANS HOME SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Cemetery burial and memorialization of the deceased.
Disposition of human remains and maintenance of cemetery property.
Operation of a cemetary
Cemetery operations including lot sales, interments, cremation services and perpetual care.
Disposal of human remains
Community improvement
Providing food and shelter to stray and abandoned animals as well as animal control.
Maintenance of hillside cemetery
Open/Close graves for burial, show and sell grave sites, monuments, and foundations, mowing/snow removal, trimming, leaf removal, record keeping, maintain deeds
Randolph county animal shelter was established to provide shelter for the homeless animals of randolph county alabama.
To provide vet care for unwanted animals and adoptions.
Maintain and operate the cemetery
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Randolph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lawndale Cemetery Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF RANDOLPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COUNTY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN PARK CEMETERY ASSOCIA ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COUNTY 4-H CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Lawndale Cemetery Association ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER AREA CHURCHES & COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF UNION CITY ↗
- Who funds JAY-RANDOLPH DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLF COUNTY VETERANS SHELTER INC DBA THE JOURNEY HOME ↗
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: Floyd & Garnet Summers Charitable Trust · Robert & Helen Holloway Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Randolph County Inc · The Howard & Oveta Pegg Charitable Trust · Heart of Indiana United Way Inc · 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 James a Myers Charitable Memorial Trust 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.