· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of R & B TRUST BONNIE FELLOWS TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| 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 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- SMST MATHEWS PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +17%
- WBWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +239%
- WIWORLDWIDEWORD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MAMIRALEA ACTIVE LIFESTYLE COMMUNITYone grant, 2024 · $1k
- LOLife of Victory Internationalgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +103%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2024 · $450 · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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…
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.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
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.
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…
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…
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 59 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
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 ST MATHEWS PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds BSK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKINSONS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON STREET BAPTIST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Life of Victory International ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOUISVILLE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
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 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
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 R & B Trust Bonnie Fellows Trustee 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.