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R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee

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.

$42k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
34
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 36
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$432k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesHousing & 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
FY2025still arriving12$42k25%
FY202434$37k29%
FY202327$25k19%
FY202216$24k0%
FY202136$29k25%
FY202030$24kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$127kYouth Development$15kEnvironment$11kCrime & Legal$8kHealth$7kHuman Services$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kEducation$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saint Matthew's Baptist Church$66,8706n/a
St Mathews Pastoral Counseling Center$34,75066%
Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc$8,52560%
Worldwideword Inc$6,00060%
Bsk Theological Seminary Inc$5,00011%
National Park Foundation$1,75050%
University of Michigan$1,50020%
Parkinson Voice Project Inc$1,25030%
The Healing Place Inc$1,20050%
National Parkinsons Institute$93520%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Mathews Pastoral Counseling Center: $34,750 over 6y, 6.2% of budgetWaterfront Botanical Gardens Inc: $8,525 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWorldwideword Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBsk Theological Seminary Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetParkinson Voice Project Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Healing Place Inc: $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parkinsons Institute: $935 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJefferson Street Baptist Center Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLife of Victory International: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaterstep Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Louisville Medical Society Foundation Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Public Radio Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Education Program Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Center for the Arts Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJaars Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Woman's Club of Louisville Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Student Conservation Association Inc: $25 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 29.

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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.

The Gheens Foundation IncKY21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation

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 R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee

How much does R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee give?
R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee reported 12 grants totaling $42,124 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (70%), Youth Development (8%), Environment (6%).
Who are R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Saint Matthew's Baptist Church ($67k), St Mathews Pastoral Counseling Center ($35k), Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc ($9k).
Does R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee 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 R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
Where is R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee based?
R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee 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 59 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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