· Private foundation
The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JUSTIN KING FOUNDATION | $104,856 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| ASBURY UNIVERSITY EQ | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $1,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $500 |
| KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FUND | $500 |
| ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INC | $500 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $500 |
| KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TJTHE JUSTIN KING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2024 · $408k · revenue +130% · 25% of their budget
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +120%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- WIWINSPIRE INCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
- MCMCLEOD'S COFFEE HOUSEone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Kennedy krieger children's hospital (kkch) offers clinical programs to meet the specialized needs of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. more than 35 different outpatient programs and four inpatient units address the…
Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.
Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Justin King Foundation Incorporated. 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 28 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 JUSTIN KING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALL GOD'S CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRISON EVANGELISM 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 · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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