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The Papa John's Foundation Inc

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
267
Grants FY2024still arriving
34
States reached
$383k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Youth Development$6.9MFood & Nutrition$2.1MEducation$2.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$458kHuman Services$399kCommunity Improvement$324kPhilanthropy$301kRecreation & Sports$271kOther$0
02FY2024 · 267 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k233 grants · $1.2M
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $501k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
  • $250k+2 grants · $745k
$5,000
Median grant
34
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$382,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$362,500
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$115,000
FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC$50,000
DARE TO CARE INC$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$30,000
GREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
SECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA$25,000
KENTUCKY HARVEST INC$25,000
CONCRETE JUNGLE INC$25,000
PAPA JOHNS DISASTER RELIEF FUND INC$25,000
ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC$25,000
PAPA JOHNS TEAM MEMBER EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC$25,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC$15,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–24, $624k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 11%UNDER 21: $10k → 17%CENTRAL TEXAS YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU: $5k → 14%SOUTHEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $15k → 19%HEALTH IN THE HOOD INC: $10k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR CHAMBER ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 16%DERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATIO: $10k → 15%FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC: $5k → 10%THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS INC: $5k → 8%FLOURISH FOSTER CARE CLOSET & SUPPORT INC: $10k → 18%DOLLS FOR DAUGHTERS AND KENZIS KIDZ: $10k → 8%KIDS IN CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAM INC: $5k → 8%METROPOLITAN YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%CHILDRENS BUREAU INC: $5k → 16%AKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 13%FROM THE BARRIO FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%INSPIRATION CORPORATION: $10k → 14%DREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $10k → 19%FOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $8k → 6%WILLIAMSBURG HOUSE OF MERCY INC: $5k → 7%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $8k → 17%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $10k → 11%TRANSFORM SCOTT COUNTY: $5k → 8%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $5k → 29%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BANGOR: $10k → 15%CARITAS OF WACO: $5k → 16%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC: $10k → 14%DERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FDN: $10k → 15%DREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $10k → 11%AUSTIN AREA URBAN LEAGUE INC: $10k → 10%DERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATIO: $8k → 15%YOUTH RESOURCES OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $10k → 15%FARMLINK PROJECT: $50k → 14%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 15%PROJECT 150: $8k → 13%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC: $8k → 14%CUNNINGHAM CHILDRENS HOME OF URBANA ILLINOIS: $10k → 19%COVENANT HOUSE: $8k → 17%GREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $15k → 15%HELPING ABUSED NEGLECTED DISADVANTAGED YOUTH-HANDY: $10k → 13%TOYS FOR KIDS: $10k → 9%ISSAQUAH FOOD & CLOTHING BANK: $8k → 9%UNDER 21: $8k → 17%KIDS MEALS INC: $10k → 16%KIDS MEALS INC: $10k → 16%HOPE MISSION INC: $8k → 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

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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 12% of The Papa John's Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Papa John's 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 194 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

194 repeat relationships: 153 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 86 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

194
141

Total granted

$11M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

95%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

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

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

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Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +66%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $500k · revenue +30%
  • FR
    FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $255k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • BC
    BENNETT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue -46%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER
    one grant, 2019 · $58k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -21%
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.

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The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
4
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
Brazos Valley Food Bank Inc

Cultivate an environment where our community can grow, contribute and thrive together. a more resilient brazos valley where nutritious food and opportunity are attainable for all.

Food & Nutrition
6
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
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Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
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The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
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Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
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Nashville Food Project Inc

The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas

The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.

Human Services
12
Montgomery County Food Bank Inc

The mission of montogomery county food bank is "uniting the community" to fight hunger. the food bank is a nonprofit hunger relief organization that receives nutritious food and distributes to hungry children, seniors, veterans and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Springfield Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sports Life Global. 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

376 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 376 of the 424 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
370/376
Grantees still filing
233/376
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $5,559,331 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA+29 more: $620,000 · Youth Development+29 moreUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $615,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COL…BENNETT COLLEGE: $500,000 · EducationBENNETT COLLEGEAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $500,000 · EducationAMERICAN ASSOCIA…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $75,000 · EducationFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $255,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RECOVERY…DARE TO CARE INC: $92,500 · Food & NutritionDARE TO CARE …KENTUCKY HARVEST INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionKENTUCKY HARV…ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMU…SECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding the Valley Inc: $65,000 · Food & Nutrition+36 more: $735,000 · Food & Nutrition+36 morePTA FLORIDA CONGRESS: $90,000 · OtherGREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · OtherGREATER LOUISVIL…PAPA JOHN'S DISASTER RELIEF FUND INC: $125,000 · OtherPAPA JOHN'S DISA…+74 more: $1,386,035 · Other+74 morePAPA JOHN'S TEAM MEMBER EMERGENCY RELIEF: $125,000 · Human ServicesFARMLINK PROJECT: $50,000 · Human ServicesDERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND: $32,500 · Human ServicesYouth Resources of Southwestern Indiana Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesDREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesFrom the Barrio Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesBALTIMORE HUNGER PROJECT LLC: $20,000 · Human ServicesInspiration Corporation: $20,000 · Human ServicesAKRON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER & URBAN LEAGUE INC: $20,000 · Human Services+8 more: $100,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $170,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WEST KENTUCKY INC: $32,500 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $30,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc: $30,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $30,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Georgia: $25,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $20,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $20,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKLAHOMA INC: $15,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF DALLAS INC: $14,000 · InternationalTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEXT STEPS EMPLOYMENT SERVICES CORP: $21,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY TANK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyJEFFERSON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Youth Development$6,179,331Education$1,750,000Food & Nutrition$1,457,500Other$1,751,035Human Services$580,000International$386,500Philanthropy$274,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $5,559,331 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $615,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENNETT COLLEGE: $500,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: $500,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFOOD RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $255,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetPAPA JOHN'S DISASTER RELIEF FUND INC: $125,000 over 3y, 83% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAPA JOHN'S TEAM MEMBER EMERGENCY RELIEF: $125,000 over 3y, 55% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $92,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY HARVEST INC: $80,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HELPINGS ATLANTA INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCONCRETE JUNGLE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget3D Girls Incorporated: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFARMLINK PROJECT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Food Bank: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN ILLINOIS FOODBANK: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND: $32,500 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Resources of Southwestern Indiana Inc: $32,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WEST KENTUCKY INC: $32,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDREAAM OPPORTUNITY CENTER: $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of SW Indiana Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDO THE RIGHT THING INC: $30,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEEKEND BACKPACKS BALTIMORE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBroward County Council PTAPTSA: $27,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetURBANA NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS CENTER: $27,500 over 4y, 1.7% 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.

Inspire Brands Founda…Boys & Girls Clubs of…Publix Super Markets …Boys & Girls Clubs of…Feeding AmericaThe Kroger Co Foundat…The Gap FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Big Brothers Big Sist…Centerpoint Energy Fo…The Kroger Co Zero Hu…The Woodforest Charit…
Inspire Brands Foundation IncGA33.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Feeding America · The Kroger Co Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Kroger Co Zero Hunger Zero Waste Foundation · The Woodforest Charitable 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Papa John's Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Papa John's Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Fp YouthOutcry Foundation Inc Dba the Hubb Arts & Trauma Center: 29% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Youth Services of Tulsa Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Greater Tampa Bay Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: 8% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Health in the Hood Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
91report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Papa John's Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Papa John's Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 424 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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