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John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust

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.

$125k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
14
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$7,626
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,875
Organizations funded a year
11 to 15
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
5
Total assets, FY2023
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationOther
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
FY202314$125k14%
FY202213$177k8%
FY202115$185k27%
FY202013$170k15%
FY201911$219kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.3MOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Pikeville$59,72350%
Midway University Inc Fka Midway College$44,85550%
Georgetown College$30,00030%
Western Kentucky University$14,2052n/a
Jefferson Community & Technical College$6,4672n/a
Culinary Institute of America$6,00010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($715k), not named here.

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.

John B & Brownie Young Memorial FundKY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust

How much does John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust give?
John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust reported 14 grants totaling $125,434 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: University of Pikeville ($60k), Midway University Inc Fka Midway College ($45k), Georgetown College ($30k).
Does John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust 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 T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fund, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
Where is John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust based?
John T & Ada M Diederich Educational Trust is based in KY.

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 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $201k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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