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Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust

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.

$229k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
52
Grants FY2024
56
Organizations funded FY2023
13%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,400
Largest grant, FY2024
$24,000
Organizations funded a year
52 to 63
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
18
Total assets, FY2024
$4.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
Human ServicesReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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 arriving49$223k4%
FY202356$232k13%
FY202256$280k4%
FY202152$226k21%
FY202054$286k9%
FY201963$291k30%
FY201863$279k29%
FY201754$200kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.4MHealth$133kPublic Benefit$132kEducation$129kInternational$78kHuman Services$71kCrime & Legal$59kRecreation & Sports$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
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MI
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MA
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IN
PA
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MO
VA
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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
Defenders Media$212,600822%
The Foundation for Reasonable Christianity Inc$192,000877%
Illinois Family Institute$128,24083%
Jesusonline Ministries$123,80081%
Reach A Village$111,50061%
Caring Network Nfp$82,56081%
Cup of Cold Water Ministries$75,45583%
Samaritan's Purse$73,50070%
The Evangelical Free Church of America$50,9007n/a
The Heritage Foundation$42,00080%
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All grantees of Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Defenders Media$212,600822%
The Foundation for Reasonable Christianity Inc$192,000877%
Illinois Family Institute$128,24083%
Jesusonline Ministries$123,80081%
Reach A Village$111,50061%
Caring Network Nfp$82,56081%
Cup of Cold Water Ministries$75,45583%
Samaritan's Purse$73,50070%
The Evangelical Free Church of America$50,9007n/a
The Heritage Foundation$42,00080%
Illinois Policy Institute$39,20080%
White River Church of Christ Inc$32,2505n/a
The Salvation Army$26,1004n/a
Bible League$25,2508n/a
American Family Association Inc$24,00080%
Inner City Impact$21,20071%
Alliance Defending Freedom$20,14080%
After Hours Ministry$20,0002n/a
Prager University Foundation$19,50070%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$17,50080%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$16,50080%
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois Inc$16,16080%
Indiana Family Institute Inc$15,70041%
Pine Grove Community Church$15,4408n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$15,00080%
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$14,55040%
Turning Point USA Inc$12,92540%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$12,50060%
Grace Community Bible Church Inc$10,4006n/a
Biola University Inc$9,00050%
Open the Bible$9,0003n/a
Heritage Classic Foundation Inc$8,20053%
Courtside Ministries$7,40041%
Food for the Poor Inc$7,00030%
Spiritual Overseers Service International Corp$6,72070%
Pacific Garden Mission$6,2007n/a
Salvation Army$6,1001n/a
Newthing Nfp$6,0001n/a
Pioneers$6,0008n/a
Reconciliation Ministries$5,76080%
Judicial Watch Inc$5,50020%
The Heartland Institute$5,50040%
Citizens for Self-Governance$5,10030%
The Nazarene Fund$5,00010%
Central Bible Church$5,0001n/a
Evangelical Congregational Church$5,0001n/a
Dawn of Hope Inc$5,00016%
Evangelical Child and Family Agency$5,0001n/a
The Starting Point Project Inc$4,80080%
Good News Jail & Prison Ministry$4,3508n/a
Compass Church$4,0701n/a
InterAct Ministries Inc$3,50020%
Scholar Leaders International$3,30020%
Bibleproject$3,00060%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$3,00050%
College Church in Wheaton$3,0002n/a
LEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries$2,78022%
Orchard Evangelical Free Church$2,0002n/a
Mercy Ships International$2,00020%
Azusa Pacific University$2,00020%
Sat-7 North America$2,00020%
Live Action$2,00010%
Open Doors With Brother Andrew Inc$1,2002n/a
Focus on the Family$1,1002n/a
Camp Beechpoint Inc$1,00010%
Horsepower Therapeutic Riding$1,00020%
The Independent Institute$1,00010%
American Bible Society$1,00010%
Pegasus Special Riders Inc$1,00011%
Open Doors Inc$75020%
Family Research Council$50010%
Nehemiah Gateway USA Inc$50010%
United American Patriots Inc$50010%
Life Outreach International Association of Churches Inc$4801n/a
Mountainview Community Christian Church$4502n/a
Squash Lake Association$3252n/a
Kids International Ministries Inc$30010%
The Sgt Thomas M Gilbert Memorial Foun Dation$2501n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$2251n/a
Point of View Ministries Inc$21010%
Good News Communications Inc$12010%
Tekton Apologetics Ministries Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($377k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDefenders Media: $212,600 over 8y, 22% of budgetThe Foundation for Reasonable Christianity Inc: $192,000 over 8y, 77% of budgetIllinois Family Institute: $128,240 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetJesusonline Ministries: $123,800 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetReach A Village: $111,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCaring Network Nfp: $82,560 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCup of Cold Water Ministries: $75,455 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $73,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $42,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIllinois Policy Institute: $39,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Family Association Inc: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetInner City Impact: $21,200 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $20,140 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $17,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChild Evangelism Fellowship of Illinois Inc: $16,160 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIndiana Family Institute Inc: $15,700 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $14,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $12,925 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBiola University Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Classic Foundation Inc: $8,200 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCourtside Ministries: $7,400 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpiritual Overseers Service International Corp: $6,720 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetReconciliation Ministries: $5,760 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heartland Institute: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens for Self-Governance: $5,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Nazarene Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDawn of Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Starting Point Project Inc: $4,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetInterAct Ministries Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetScholar Leaders International: $3,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBibleproject: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD FOR CHRIST Leadership Vistas International Ministries: $2,780 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMercy Ships International: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAzusa Pacific University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSat-7 North America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLive Action: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Beechpoint Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHorsepower Therapeutic Riding: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Independent Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bible Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPegasus Special Riders Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 55.

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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.

Tyndale House MinistriesIL21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tyndale House Ministries · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · From His Hand Foundation · Wheaton College · Greater Horizons · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust

How much does Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust give?
Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust reported 52 grants totaling $229,220 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 63 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (67%), Health (6%), Public Benefit (6%).
Who are Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Defenders Media ($213k), The Foundation for Reasonable Christianity Inc ($192k), Illinois Family Institute ($128k).
Does Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust 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 Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tyndale House Ministries, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust based?
Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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 122 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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