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Robert and Carole Julian Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $61,968 |
| HIGH MUSEUM OF ART | $31,072 |
| THE WALL OF HONOR | $25,000 |
| HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE SCHENCK SCHOOL | $22,140 |
| MOMS FOR AMERICA | $21,000 |
| ASGCA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TINMAN MINISTRIES | $18,540 |
| BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $15,338 |
| GLOBAL FAITH INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $14,005 |
| ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN EDUCATORS | $10,000 |
| CAMP TWIN LAKES | $10,000 |
| ATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 23 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- TSTHE SCHENCK SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $434k · revenue +11%
- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue ×31 · 65% of their budget
Vanderbilt University6× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +426%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $16k
- UUABone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…
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.
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Chs Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
88 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. 88 of the 170 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 THE SCHENCK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Moms for America Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FAITH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Association of American Educators ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic High School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GALLOWAY SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EPS ESSENTIAL PREGNANCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF OMAHA ↗
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 Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Dr C C and Mabel L Criss Memorial · Seline Family Foundation · Mammel Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Fred and Sally Bekins Foundation · H & R Peters Family Foundation · Ike & Roz Friedman 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 Robert and Carole Julian Foundation 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.
- Year Up 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.
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