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SJ & LB Foundation Inc at a glance

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SJ & LB Foundation 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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$111kHuman Services$22kHealth$20kReligion$14kPhilanthropy$13kYouth Development$6kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,850
Median grant
5
States reached
$512k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO$5,700
LEE UNIVERSITY$5,000
GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC$2,850
Individual grant recipient$2,850
TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC$2,850
PANTHER RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$2,850
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 11%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
MI
NY
OR
WY
CA
CO
AZ
TN
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of SJ & LB Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

SJ & LB Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169k · 16 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$169k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • LU
    LEE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +16%
  • MS
    MENLO SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $16k · revenue +90%
  • BC
    BRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • RN
    R Narroway
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SG
    S Gaviria
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SO
    SPCA OF BRADLEY COUNTY TENNESSEEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +42%
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.

1
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Barclay College

The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.

Education
3
Tennesseans for Quality Early Education

To advance state policies and practices that ensure all tennessee children from birth through 3rd grade get the high quality early education they need to power our state's future.

Education
4
Campbell County Christian Academy Inc

To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.

Education
5
Christ Led Communities Inc Formerly Christian Leadership Concepts

To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.

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6
Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy

To promote, assist, and support the development, growth, and sustainability of child advocacy centers in their service to at-risk, abused, and neglected children and their families.

Human Services
7
Clevelandbradley Chamber of Commerce

Business development of members, economic growth of the region, and the highest quality of life for the ocoee region of tennessee.

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8
Communities in Schools of Tennessee

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
9
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Tennessee Charitable Care Network

The mission of tccn is to support, educate, and represent non-profit organizations that provide charitable healthcare services to low-income, uninsured, and underserved tennesseans. tccn envisions a strong, compassionate healthcare safety…

Health
12
California Charter Schools Association Advocates

To increase the involvement of the charter school community in the political process, create a pipeline of charter school supporters and activitists, endorse and support public officials who are committed to california charter public…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; the most unlike its peers is Spca of Bradley County Tennessee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherLEE UNIVERSITYMENLO SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherMENLO SCHOOLCHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO: $14,200 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADOIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPANTHER RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $8,350 · OtherPANTHER RUN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $8,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $8,200 · Other+12 more: $31,950 · Other+12 moreBRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,317 · EducationBRADLEY CLE…GIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $5,350 · EducationGIRLS PREPA…CHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $4,000 · EducationCHATTANOOGA…BLUE ROSE COMPASS INC: $3,000 · EducationBLUE ROSE C…TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6,850 · Human ServicesTHE CARING PLACE: $5,200 · Human ServicesThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCUSP FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyEnd Alexander Disease Inc: $4,500 · HealthON POINT: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $4,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentMARION CO COMMUNITY MINISTRY I: $3,700 · Food & NutritionChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $1,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$155,550Education$22,667Human Services$12,050Philanthropy$9,500Health$8,500Environment$6,500Food & Nutrition$5,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRADLEY CLEVELAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,317 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $8,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6,850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $5,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARING PLACE: $5,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPCA OF BRADLEY COUNTY TENNESSEE: $4,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEnd Alexander Disease Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCHATTANOOGA GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARK MAKING: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARION CO COMMUNITY MINISTRY I: $3,700 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLUE ROSE COMPASS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetON POINT: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND AND BRADLEY COUNTY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION VALLEY OF CHATTANOOGA TN: $2,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCUSP FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEROKEE AREA COUNCIL INCORPORATED BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER COLORADO COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES H COOLIDGE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR HERITAGE CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELANDBRADLEY GREENWAYS: $200 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 Community Foundat…Tucker FoundationChattanooga Christian…George R Johnson Fami…Weldon F Osborne Foun…Benwood Foundation IncThe Maclellan Foundat…Robert L & Kathrina H…Robert F Stone Founda…The Hacker and Kitty …McKenzie Foundation D…Hamico Inc
The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga IncTN23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Tucker Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Robert L & Kathrina H Maclellan Founda Foundation · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Hamico Inc

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 SJ & LB Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SJ & LB Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 34 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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