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Jkj Charitable Foundation

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.

$490k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.7MReligion$1.7MHuman Services$782kYouth Development$616kHousing & Shelter$596kCivil Rights$510kCommunity Improvement$350kRecreation & Sports$349kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $289k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WHITE ROSE RESISTANCE$125,000
FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION$63,550
TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES$50,000
LIFESONG$50,000
PRO ALTHLETES OUTREACH$45,000
GATEWAYS TO BETTER EDUCATION$25,000
TRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES$25,000
LIVE ACTION$20,000
TEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE$15,000
THE CHIARI PROJECT$12,500
ELIJAH RISING$10,605
Individual grant recipient$10,155
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY$10,000
FELIX ORGANIZATION$10,000
GRACE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH$7,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $691k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELIJAH RISING: $11k → 16%BOTH HANDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 4%LIFESONG: $100k → 11%CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS: $15k → 6%BRAVE LOVE: $79k → 14%LIFESONG: $50k → 11%BRAVELOVE INC: $5k → 14%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $85k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%TEEN & FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 16%TEEN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
TN
SC
DC
TX
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 27 repeat orgs$999k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
36

Total granted

$8.4M
$740k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+11%

Still filing today

52%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    Texas Children's Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +105%
  • FW
    FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $833k · revenue +97%
  • CM
    CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $600k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • D2
    DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +11%
  • CM
    CHAMPION MINISTRIES-GROUNDWIRE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
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.

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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
4
Christar International Inc

Christar international serves as a catalyst to the network of christar ministries by facilitating and encouraging partnerships with churches who sen dout men and women who proclaim the gospel for life-giving transformation in communitiesw…

Religion
5
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
6
Orphan Outreach

To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.

International
7
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
8
Alongside Inc

Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.

Religion
9
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
10
Crossroads Christian Counseling

Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
11
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

—
12
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Liberty Institute; the most unlike its peers is The Farris Foundation. 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 75 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
25/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $750,000 · OtherCHAPELWOOD UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES: $593,800 · OtherSEARCH HOMELESS SERVICESCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $325,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTONALPHA HOUSTON: $325,000 · OtherALPHA HOUSTONIndividual grant recipient: $270,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $165,000 · OtherWHITE ROSE RESISTANCE: $125,000 · Other+44 more: $1,012,457 · Other+44 moreTexas Children's Hospital: $2,475,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $833,391 · HealthFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION+4 more: $143,361 · HealthTeen & Family Services: $421,672 · Human ServicesLIFESONG INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesBRAVELOVE INC: $83,691 · Human Services+3 more: $35,605 · Human ServicesFrontier Camp Inc: $294,000 · ReligionAlpha USA: $155,000 · ReligionPro Athletes Outreach: $105,000 · ReligionPRIORITY LIVING INC: $80,100 · Religion+2 more: $15,250 · ReligionCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC: $600,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $350,000 · Civil RightsLIVE ACTION: $20,000 · Civil RightsTRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FARRIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,566,257Health$3,451,752Human Services$690,968Religion$649,350Youth Development$600,000Civil Rights$370,000Philanthropy$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $2,475,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $833,391 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC: $600,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTeen & Family Services: $421,672 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $350,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON: $325,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetFrontier Camp Inc: $294,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAlpha USA: $155,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLIFESONG INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CHIARI PROJECT: $100,000 over 8y, 66% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBRAVELOVE INC: $83,691 over 2y, 21% of budgetPRIORITY LIVING INC: $80,100 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetI Am Waters Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetGATEWAYS TO BETTER EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE FARRIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFELIX ORGANIZATION - ADOPTEES FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,750 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE RESEARCH AND RECOGNITION PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSpringSpirit Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChristian Alliance for Orphans: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetElijah Rising: $10,605 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Council on Recovery: $10,361 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoth Hands Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE POCKET TESTAMENT LEAGUE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNextOp Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAURIE SCHOENDORFER ENDOWMENT FOR EDUCATION: $7,070 over 1y, 16% of budgetTIRZAH INTERNATIONAL: $5,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY TIES FAMILY RESOURCE SERVIC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGE Fellowship: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMIGAS PARA NINOS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Teen & Family Services ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES - HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds Frontier Camp Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alpha USA ↗
  • Who funds LIFESONG INC ↗
  • Who funds Pro Athletes Outreach ↗
  • Who funds THE CHIARI PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds BRAVELOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRIORITY LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds I Am Waters Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAYS TO BETTER EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON'S CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES ↗
  • Who funds THE FARRIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Sadie Keller Foundation ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Strake FoundationChristian Community F…The Methodist HospitalAlbert & Ethel Herzst…Shell USA Company Fou…Adoption Is an OptionWayne Duddlesten Foun…The John M O'Quinn Fo…Sterling-Turner Found…Halliburton Charitabl…Stoller Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX25.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Adoption Is an Option · Wayne Duddlesten Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Halliburton Charitable Foundation · Stoller 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 Jkj Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jkj Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 75 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-PF 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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