How much did Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

symphony orchestra

2021

—

2022

—

2023

—

2024

arts cultureeducation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $42k
$10k–50k17 grants · $289k
$50k–250k2 grants · $125k

$14,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

West Virginia State University Fnd$75,000
West Virginia Health Right Inc$50,000
Hope for Appalachia$25,000
Union Mission Ministries Inc$25,000
West Virginia Symphony$25,000
Library Foundtion of Kanawha Cty$25,000
East End Resource Center$25,000
Boy Scouts of America Buckskin Council$20,000
Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home$20,000
WV Humanities Council$15,000
REA of Hope Inc$15,000
Clay Center for Arts and Sciences$15,000
Girls Scouts of Black Diamond$15,000
McDowell County Commission on Aging Inc$14,000
Charleston Regatta Inc$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 28 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+92%

Still filing today

36%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

UO
University of Charleston
4× · 2020–2023 · $190k · revenue +16%
KV
Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home
5× · 2020–2024 · $109k · revenue +32%
WV
West Virginia Health Right Inc
3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +80%

Funded once

GG
Greater Greenbrier Valley Community Fnd
one grant, 2023 · $50k
CF
CAMC Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +126%
CT
Children's Therapy Clinic
one grant, 2023 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Community Care of West Virginia Inc

To provide high quality, accessible comprehensive and cost-effective healthcare services to our patients while serving as their medical home.

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Charleston Area Medical Center Inc

Striving to provide the best healthcare to every patient, every day. camc owns and operates four separately-licensed hospitals as a tertiary-care teaching hospital designed to provide care for community residents through every stage of…

Health

West Virginia University Hospitals Inc

WVU Hospitals exists to provide a quality healthcare system, including tertiary services, to the citizens of WV and the surrounding region.

Health

West Virginia United Health System Inc

West Virginia United Health System is committed to improving the health of the communities it serves through quality, cost effective health care services support of health professional training and research.

Health

West Virginia University Medical Corporation

To support the West Virginia University School of Medicine in the furtherance of its charitable, scientific, and educational purposes.

Health

Wv Helping Hands

Human Services

Charleston Area Therapeutic

Provide therapy using horses for disabled children and adults. regular program operates six days per week for public school special education classes and private students.

Health

Council On Aging Inc

An organization dedicated to serving senior citizens throughout our area and improving the quality of life for our clients.

Human Services

Central West Virginia Aging Services Inc

Provide homemaker and case management services to home-bound seniors and disabled members in west virginia. provide, also, training and job assistance to those 55 and older on a limited income.

Human Services

Charleston County Human Services Commission Inc

The organization provides a variety of programs to sustain the entire range of life necessities, including healthcare, education, employment, and housing assistance.

Human Services

West Virginia Community Voices Inc

To improve the health and health care quality for residents of west virginia.

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Carilion Medical Center

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Health Right Inc and the most unlike its peers is Maui Humane Society. 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

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

18/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,747,145Education$190,000Health$183,500Human Services$69,000Arts & Culture$65,000Community Improvement$27,200Animals$12,000

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.

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.

The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV41.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Daywood Foundationinc · Tgkvf Inc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Charles & Mary Fayne · Herscher Foundation Inc · Maier Foundation Inc · The Jeanne G Hamilton and Lawson W · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington · Baird Foundation Inc

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 organisation Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson 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.

2024

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Hope for Appalachia.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~16 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472796944 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Hope for Appalachia, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 16 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation?

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Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation?

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