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Jefferson County Teachers Association

Jcta is a teachers union whose purpose is to serve as the active voice of it's members, to promote quality and equality in public education, expand and protect the rights and interests of the members, and advocate human, civil and economic rights for all.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$320kPublic Benefit$95kArts & Culture$30kEmployment$23kCivil Rights$5kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $11,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $66,492 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,992 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE KENTUCKY LABOR-MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE INC$6,000
FUND FOR THE ARTS$5,500
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LITTLE ROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 17%PROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KENTUCKY: $250k → 14%FUND FOR THE ARTS: $7k → 15%FUND FOR THE ARTS: $6k → 15%FUND FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 15%FUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $5k → 15%YES4JCPS INC: $50k → 15%KENTUCKIANS FOR CHECKS AND BALANCES: $25k → 15%EVOLVE502: $60k → 15%JEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%MEIJER INC FOR METRO UNITED WAY: $5k → 15%KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%COMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE ACTION FUND: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Kentucky Association for Economic Development Inc

Our purpose is to educate, advocate and connect with our members on issues that are important to the economic development in the commonwealth of kentucky.

Community Improvement
2
Kentucky State Afl-Cio

To organize and promote labor, provide education and program opportunities to members and educate the public on the benefits of union membership and programs.

3
Northern Kentucky Education Council Inc

Strengthen, unite, and mobilize education, business and community partners in Northern Kentucky to advance student success and wellbeing from early childhood through post-secondary/career.

Education
4
Jefferson County Teachers Association

Jcta is a teachers union whose purpose is to serve as the active voice of it's members, to promote quality and equality in public education, expand and protect the rights and interests of the members, and advocate human, civil and economic…

5
Kentucky Educational Fund for Handicapped Children
6
Kentucky Assn of School Superintendents

To develop the capacity of Superintendents, and those who aspire to the Superintendency, to reach their full potential in transforming their educational systems to produce students who successfully compete in a global society.

7
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
8
Kentucky Exposition Foundation Inc

To help create legacies to enrich the lives of all citizens of the commonwealth of kentucky, continue providing resources for youth development, and communicate the traditions and technology of kentucky agriculture.we also aim to continue…

Food & Nutrition
9
Louisville Preservation Fund Inc Co Community Foundation of Louisville

The louisville preservation fund,inc. revitalizes historic places through direct real estate action and partnerships to enhance community and promote economic development.

Community Improvement
10
Kentucky Education Association

To unite, organize and empower members to advocate for themselves, to ensure a quality public education for every kentucky student and to be the preeminent voice for quality public education.

11
Louisville Asset Building Coalition Inc

Louisville asset building coalition (labc) is a broad public/private collaborative dedicated to promoting financial stability and asset building for individuals and families. by providing direct services and linkages to other community…

Community Improvement
12
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson County Public Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Showing Up for Racial Justice Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KY — $250,000 · OtherPROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KYEVOLVE502 INC — $60,000 · OtherEVOLVE502 INCYes4JCPS Inc — $50,000 · OtherYes4JCPS IncKENTUCKIANS FOR CHECKS AND BALANCES — $25,000 · OtherKENTUCKIANS FOR CHECKS AND BALANCESTHE KENTUCKY LABOR-MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE INC — $22,550 · OtherTHE KENTUCKY LABOR-MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE INC+1 more — $5,000 · OtherFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $22,500 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE ACTION FUND — $20,000 · Public BenefitJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyLITTLE ROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Employment
Other$412,550Arts & Culture$30,000Public Benefit$20,000Philanthropy$10,000Employment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROTECT OUR SCHOOLS KY — $250,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYes4JCPS Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE KENTUCKY LABOR-MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE INC — $22,550 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ALLIANCE ACTION FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLITTLE ROCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

The Community Foundation of LouisvilleKY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville

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 Jefferson County Teachers Association 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.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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