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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.

$136k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$104,856
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$560k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$136k27%
FY20239$143k11%
FY20228$129k13%
FY202112$61k8%
FY202018$72k44%
FY201913$36k8%
FY201812$38k25%
FY201710$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$408kHealth$113kReligion$60kEducation$38kHuman Services$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Justin King Foundation Incorporated$407,626525%
Christian Student Fellowship Inc$60,0003n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$22,50030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$20,50050%
Lexington School Inc$17,50040%
March of Dimes Inc$12,00080%
Kids Cancer Alliance Inc$10,25080%
The Hope Center Inc$7,00040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$6,00080%
All God's Children Inc$4,00070%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Justin King Foundation Incorporated$407,626525%
Christian Student Fellowship Inc$60,0003n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$22,50030%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$20,50050%
Lexington School Inc$17,50040%
March of Dimes Inc$12,00080%
Kids Cancer Alliance Inc$10,25080%
The Hope Center Inc$7,00040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$6,00080%
All God's Children Inc$4,00070%
God's Pantry Food Bank Inc$3,50050%
Special Olympics Kentucky Inc$3,20040%
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc$2,00020%
Prison Evangelism Inc$10010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Justin King Foundation Incorporated: $407,626 over 5y, 25% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLexington School Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKids Cancer Alliance Inc: $10,250 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAll God's Children Inc: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Pantry Food Bank Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Kentucky Inc: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrison Evangelism Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation

How much does The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation give?
The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $135,606 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Health (17%), Religion (9%).
Who are The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Justin King Foundation Incorporated ($408k), Christian Student Fellowship Inc ($60k), Shriners Hospitals for Children ($23k).
Does The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation based?
The Lynn & Rovena Alexander Family Foundation is based in KY.

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 28 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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