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Just Keep Livin Foundation
The JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION (jklf) was founded by camila and matthew mcconaughey with the mission to empower high school students JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION by providing them with the tools to lead active lives and make healthy choices for a better future.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $1,687,114 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,905,499 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $218,385 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k8 grants · $619k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODCRAFT RANGERS | $112,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS | $97,500 |
| GREEN DOT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $78,900 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AREA | $70,000 |
| MYCOM | $65,000 |
| AUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION AND YOUTH | $65,000 |
| DOLLS & DREAMS INC | $65,000 |
| MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER | $65,000 |
| INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS | $47,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL SAN ANTONIO | $35,500 |
| GONDOLIER BOOSTER CLUB | $35,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC | $34,714 |
| CICS NORTHTOWN ACADEMY | $32,500 |
| ALDINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH ALABAMA | $32,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 27 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $820k 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
- GDGreen Dot Public Schools6× · 2017–2024 · $410k · revenue +55%
- WRWOODCRAFT RANGERS6× · 2017–2024 · $397k · revenue +388%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TSTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2021 · $1.4M · revenue -28%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL TEXASone grant, 2021 · $1.3M
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue +1%
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose college, career, and beyond so they can lead fulfilling lives and…
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
Apie provides college and career readiness support through individualized academic and mentoring programs to prepare students for success.
We believe every child in america should have equal opportunity and resources to engage in a quality education. by partnering with teachers and students in under-resourced schools, we provide the support needed to create equitable learning…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The organization invests in schools, organizations and initiatives that catalyze excellence in public education, convenes leaders and uplifts public understanding to advocate for great public schools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kara Love Project. 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 23 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 234 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN DISASTER RELIEF NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Green Dot Public Schools ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODCRAFT RANGERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AUSTIN AND TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Area Urban League ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA AVE FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds GONDOLIER BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN VOICES FOR EDUCATION & YOUTH ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds STEPPING HIGHER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds Aldine Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOUNDATION OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS ↗
- Who funds FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY STRENGTENING ↗
- Who funds LA PROMISE FUND ↗
- Who funds LACER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS ↗
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: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · United Way Inc · Weingart Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Joseph Drown Foundation · Great Public Schools Now · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Carol and James Collins 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 Just Keep Livin 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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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