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Jefferson County Public Education Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Jefferson County Public Education Foundation Inc

Support of jefferson county, kentucky public schools

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$10MEmployment$206kArts & Culture$72kHuman Services$18kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Benefit$8k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $3,066,907, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,235,080 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,173 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.0M
$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,589,555
EVOLVE502 INC$400,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE$59,352
RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC$18,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC: $18k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
04Its field

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.

1
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
2
Northern Kentucky University Foundation Inc

The mission of northern kentucky university foundation is to secure, invest, steward, and distribute private resources in support of northern kentucky university, to advocate for the university's best interests, and to build lasting…

Education
3
Lafayette College

Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…

Education
4
The Educational Foundation of the Kentucky Society of Cpas Inc

The educational foundation of the kentucky society of certified public accountants (educational foundation), founded in 1961, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the number of college degrees in kentucky, expanding the…

Education
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
Coker University

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…

Education
7
Lehigh University

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…

Education
8
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
9
Kentucky College of Art Design

The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.

Education
10
Catholic Education Foundation Inc

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Louisiana Construction Education Foundation Inc

The mission of the louisiana construction education foundation (lcef) is to secure funding and other resources necessary to provide training for careers in construction. the lcef will partner with public and private training entities that…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Louisville Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Black Community Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $9,019,433 · OtherJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSEVOLVE502 INC: $400,000 · Other+10 more: $146,420 · OtherKENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $206,250 · EducationLEARNING STEWARDS INC: $75,000 · EducationSPALDING UNIVERSITY INC: $53,330 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $39,720 · EducationCOLLABORATIVE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING INC: $16,436 · EducationSowing Seeds with Faith Inc: $14,842 · EducationJEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,835 · Education+2 more: $14,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $310,521 · PhilanthropyRITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Human Services
Other$9,565,853Education$434,413Philanthropy$310,521Human Services$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $310,521 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING STEWARDS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $63,823 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPALDING UNIVERSITY INC: $53,330 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $39,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING INC: $16,436 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSowing Seeds with Faith Inc: $14,842 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,835 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,368 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…James Graham Brown Fo…The Gheens Foundation…C E and S Foundation …Metro United Way IncThe Community Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jefferson County Public Education Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jefferson County Public Education Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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