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Richard Rex Ponn Trust Fund
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER | $1,500 |
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
| CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION | $1,100 |
| OHIO ALLEYCAT RESOURCE & SPAY | $1,100 |
| LOVE OF PAWS INC | $1,100 |
| CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE | $1,100 |
| BARELY USED PETS | $1,100 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF RICHMOND | $1,100 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,100 |
| MENIFEE ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,100 |
| PET PROMISE | $1,100 |
| PRIMATE RESCUE CENTER | $1,100 |
| GALLUDET UNIVERSITY | $1,100 |
| URBANA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- LHLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +5%
- TCTHE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +156%
- BUBarely Used Pets Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CCCHAMPAIGN COUNTY YOUTH CHOIRone grant, 2020 · $3k
- UHURBANA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CACHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +34%
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 champaign county humane association owns and operates the paws animal shelter. the mission is to provide food and shelter to abandoned and strayed animals.
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home companion animals, and provide necessary medical care for these animals, including spaying/neuturing by a veterinary professional, in accordance with the laws of the state
Carolina tiger rescue's mission is saving and protecting wildcats in captivity and in the wild.
Humane society of the tennessee valley, inc. is dedicated to providing lifesaving programs and resources to enrich the lives of people and companion animals in the communities we serve.
To advocate the compassionate treatment of animals; educate the community on responsible, lifelong pet ownership; and promote adoption as the best option when searching for a new pet.
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
To save shelter animals as well as strays and owner surrenders; to promote spaying/neutering; and to find ways to control the pet overpopulation in the community
To provide adopted pet families for abandoned and neglected animals from the middle tennessee area throughout the eastern and northeastern united states.
Reduce pet overpopulation and welfare through adoption programs and spay/neuter assistance
To provide a licensed, no-kill shelter for homeless animals until adopted into a loving and caring lifetime environment; to reduce the population of stray animals; and to promote responsible pet ownership.
Rescue and adoption of animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Appalachian Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lexington Leadership Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 30 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 LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PET PROMISE ↗
- Who funds THE CAT WELFARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Barely Used Pets Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIMATE RESCUE CENTER ↗
- Who funds APOPO US INC ↗
- Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS CRIME STOPPERS 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Richard Rex Ponn Trust Fund 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.
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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