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Joseph W Craft III 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.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$22MPhilanthropy$5.4MCommunity Improvement$3.0MPublic Benefit$3.0MReligion$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MYouth Development$998kHealth$592kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $525k
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.6M
$150,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$146M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MSU FOUNDATION$1,320,000
SOAR SHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION$1,312,500
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE$1,000,000
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY$925,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$702,861
RED RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT$520,000
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE$317,800
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSIGHT$300,000
FRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES I$250,000
SALVATION ARMY OF LEXINGTON$150,000
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY$100,000
THE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION$64,000
KENTUCKY CHAMBER FOUNDATION$60,500
KNOTT COUNTY YOUTH FOUNDATION$50,000
TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$50,000
02The need
03

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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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CLEVELAND HOME INC: $25k → 10%EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY INC: $250k → 13%EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY INC: $50k → 13%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $5k → 15%RESONANCE CENTER FOR WOMEN: $5k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%STAND IN THE GAP MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%YOUTH AT HEART: $5k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NY
KY
WV
AZ
DC
OK
TX
FL

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 29 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$29M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+41%

Still filing today

76%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • AL
    ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +152%
  • MS
    MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +14%
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $900k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • AG
    A GATHERING PLACE FOR TULSA
    one grant, 2017 · $750k
  • TL
    Tulsa Library Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue +178% · 31% of their budget
  • WH
    WAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue -90% · 73% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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 Educational Television Foundation Inc

Nonprofit foundation created to support and further the educational, charitable, and public purposes and activities of the kentucky authority for educational television. the organization's primary purpose is to receive, hold, and…

Arts & Culture
2
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
3
Washington and Lee University

Mission statement of washington and lee university: washington and lee university provides a liberal arts education that develops students' capacity to think freely, critically, and humanely and to conduct themselves with honor, integrity,…

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Taylor University

The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.

Education
6
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
7
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
8
Arkansas State University System Foundation Inc

The primary purpose of the arkansas state university system foundation, inc. (the foundation) is to receive, solicit, accept and hold, administer, invest and disburse any and every kind of property for such education, scientific, literary,…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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11
Coker University

Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…

Education
12
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red River Economic Development. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…United Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 SchoolsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportLocal History MuseumsDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%11%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr18%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr18%42%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
12%
2,432/20,276

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 56 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,495,000 · OtherMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY — $3,920,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSIGHT — $1,500,000 · OtherGOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OVERSIGHTCHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP INC — $1,250,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP INCA GATHERING PLACE FOR TULSA — $750,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $702,861 · Other+26 more — $2,684,984 · Other+26 moreALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $8,000,000 · EducationALICE LLOYD COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATIO…Tulsa Library Trust — $750,000 · EducationTulsa Library TrustThe University of Tulsa — $625,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Education+3 more — $230,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $4,810,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR…+2 more — $266,500 · PhilanthropySHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC — $1,312,500 · Community ImprovementRED RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $552,450 · Community ImprovementKentucky Chamber Foundation Inc — $262,095 · Community Improvement+1 more — $40,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC — $750,000 · Arts & CultureWAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $350,000 · Arts & CultureAWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION — $64,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $900,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $4,900 · Public BenefitAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $550,000 · Social Science
Other$17,302,845Education$12,105,000Philanthropy$5,076,500Community Improvement$2,167,045Arts & Culture$1,266,000Public Benefit$904,900Social Science$550,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE — $8,000,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetMOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $6,495,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $4,810,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $2,000,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC — $1,312,500 over 1y, 38% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $900,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMERICAN SONG ARCHIVES INC — $750,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetTulsa Library Trust — $750,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetThe University of Tulsa — $625,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRED RIVER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $552,450 over 2y, 100% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $550,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY — $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWAYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $350,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC — $317,800 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY — $300,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetKentucky Chamber Foundation Inc — $262,095 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetGOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — $190,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKNOTT COUNTY YOUTH FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 4y, 85% of budgetCOACHES FOR THE KIDS INC — $166,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetLEXINGTON SCHOOL INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAWESOME CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC — $100,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE CHURCH STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION — $64,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COAL LADIES AUXILIARY — $40,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ADVENTURE CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetResonance Center for Women Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTAND IN THE GAP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYouth At Heart Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWreaths Across America — $4,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEXARTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Blue Grass Community …The Hardesty Family F…Mervin Bovaird Founda…The Gelvin FoundationThe Community Foundat…The Cuesta Foundation…The Anne and Henry Za…Tulsa Community Found…Sanford P & Irene F B…Ralph and Frances McG…The Sharna and Irvin …El and Thelma Gaylord…
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 2 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Gelvin Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Cuesta Foundation Inc · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Ralph and Frances McGill Foundation the Trust Company of Oklahoma · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation

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 Joseph W Craft III 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
  • The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 56 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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