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John K Boardman Jr 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.

$920k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2024
34
Organizations funded FY2023
56%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 34
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$18M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations John K Boardman Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $332k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving34$920k26%
FY202334$1000k56%
FY202219$250k58%
FY20215$53k0%
FY20188$7k38%
FY20177$6kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.0MArts & Culture$300kHuman Services$173kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kAnimals$60kHousing & Shelter$51kEducation$38kReligion$34kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($958k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John K Boardman Jr Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBreakthrough T1d: $237,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Avenel Foundation Inc: $235,250 over 5y, 23% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $120,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $61,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKaleideum: $55,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $33,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Animal Rescue Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRadnor A Better Chance Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetQuiet Givers Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Carying Place Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColorectal Cancer Alliance: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Zoological Society Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Community Health Foundation: $11,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Flight of Hope: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInter-Faith Food Shuttle: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPretty in Pink Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPets for Vets Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaven House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiabetes Research Institute Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Knier Family Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide

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.

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About John K Boardman Jr Foundation

How much does John K Boardman Jr Foundation give?
John K Boardman Jr Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $920,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John K Boardman Jr Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (45%), Arts & Culture (13%), Human Services (8%).
Who are John K Boardman Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Breakthrough T1d ($238k), The Avenel Foundation Inc ($235k), Carilion Clinic Foundation ($120k).
Does John K Boardman Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John K Boardman Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John K Boardman Jr Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation, Knier Family Foundation.
Where is John K Boardman Jr Foundation based?
John K Boardman Jr Foundation is based in NC.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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