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Jlh Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $220,000 |
| UATX | $100,000 |
| DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER | $50,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $50,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| STATE FREEDOM CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO UNLEASH PROSPERITY | $25,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM | $20,000 |
| LIBRE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| FREEDOM WORKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ILLINOIS POLICY INSITUTE | $20,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM | $10,000 |
| GRAND OPPORTUNITY UNITED | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k 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
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue +107%
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $123k · revenue +9%
- AFADVOCATES FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Austinone grant, 2022 · $100k
- THTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -18%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +40%
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.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
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.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
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…
Foreign Policy For America is a nonpartisan advocacy organization founded to strengthen support for principled American engagement in the world.
First liberty institute provides pro bono legal services to advance and defend religious liberty for individuals, churches, and other ministries and organizations.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
American press institute acts as a scout on the frontier of technology and audience behavior to identify where change is occurring and helps news organizations learn how to implement and scale that change successfully so they have a…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
46 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. 46 of the 67 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 TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROBERT SMALLS LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UATX ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds State Freedom Caucus Foundation ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNLEASH PROSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds With God All Things Are Possible ↗
- Who funds Cross International Inc ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Unreported Story Society ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNOW THE TRUTH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FUTURE INC ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Greater Horizons · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Global Compassion Services · The Beach Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust
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 Jlh Foundation 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.
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