West Virginia · Private foundation
Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $410k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $420k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $456k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $385k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $484k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $449k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $470k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Charleston Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 0% |
| West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc | $160,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home Inc | $123,500 | 6 | 6% |
| Library Foundation of Kanawha County Inc | $107,145 | 3 | 4% |
| Covenant House Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 1% |
| West Virginia Health Right Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hope for Appalachia Incorporated | $50,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Union Mission Ministries Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Daymark Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| YWCA of Charleston West Virginia Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · The Daywood Foundationinc · The Martha Gaines & Russell Wehrle Memorial Foundation · Tgkvf Inc · Herscher Foundation Inc · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · Bowles Rice Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · HB Wehrle Foundation Stephen D Wehrle TTEE · Charleston Retail Credit Associatio
How this is measured
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About Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation
- How much does Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation give?
- Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $410,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The University of Charleston Inc ($200k), West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc ($160k), Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home Inc ($124k).
- Does Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc, Encova Foundation of West Virginia.
- Where is Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation based?
- Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation is based in WV.
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