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.

Where is R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee based?

R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee is based in KY.

R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee

R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee at a glance

· Private foundation

R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee

Q: 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.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% 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

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $17k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$432k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
YOUNG LIFE-EAST LOUISVILLE	$15,000
ST MATTHEWS BAPTIST CHURCH	$10,100
ST MATTHEWS PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER	$6,000
BSK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY	$5,000
WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS	$2,575
ZONA JUVENIL MINISTRIES	$1,000
WORLD WIDE WORD INC	$1,000
NATIONAL PARKINSON'S INSTITUTE	$500
WYCLIFF MINISTRIES	$500
KET	$200
Individual grant recipient	$149
ST MATTHEWS AREA MINISTRIES	$100

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $650) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$158k · 37 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$158k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+30%

Still filing today

49%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEnvironmentPublic BenefitReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

SM
ST MATHEWS PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER
6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +17%
WB
WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +239%
WI
WORLDWIDEWORD INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +21%

Funded once

MA
MIRALEA ACTIVE LIFESTYLE COMMUNITY
one grant, 2024 · $1k
LO
Life of Victory Internationalgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +103%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
one grant, 2024 · $450 · revenue 0%

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.

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education

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

Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Parkinsons Institute. 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

31 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. 31 of the 59 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

25/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$122,678Health$36,775Environment$8,675Religion$6,600Education$5,200Public Benefit$1,335Human Services$750

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home