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Keith Urban Just Cause Foundation at a glance

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Keith Urban Just Cause Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$614
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$614
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$80kHuman Services$21kHealth$20kHousing & Shelter$20kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$614
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$614
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$614
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SONGS FOR SOUND INC: $5k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%BETHLEHEM CENTER OF NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120k · 5 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$120k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+71%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $614 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +152%
  • CR
    Country Radio Broadcasters Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +3%
  • BC
    BETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTERSTONE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • SF
    Songs for Sound Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -33%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +120%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
3
Centerstone of Tennessee Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
4
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
6
Fort Loudoun Medical Center

Fort Loudoun Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Centerstone of America Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
8
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…

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11
Centerstone Research Institute Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
12
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Country Radio Broadcasters Inc: $30,000 · OtherCountry Radio Broadcasters IncWO SMITH SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherWO SMITH SCHOOL+2 more: $1,614 · OtherMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCBETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $20,000 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM CENTERS O…Songs for Sound Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSongs for Sound IncNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE RESCU…CENTERSTONE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCENTERSTONE…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $5,000 · HealthVanderbilt …SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$46,614Arts & Culture$35,000Human Services$25,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Health$15,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCountry Radio Broadcasters Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBETHLEHEM CENTERS OF NASHVILLE: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTERSTONE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSongs for Sound Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Keith Urban Just Cause Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keith Urban Just Cause Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Keith Urban Just Cause Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Keith Urban Just Cause Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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