How much does Carl M Jacobs Foundation give?

Carl M Jacobs Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $805,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Carl M Jacobs Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Health (7%), International (5%).

Who are Carl M Jacobs Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cincinnati Museum Association ($1.2M), New York City Ballet Inc ($605k), Museum of Modern Art ($405k).

Does Carl M Jacobs Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Carl M Jacobs 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 Carl M Jacobs Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is Carl M Jacobs Foundation based?

Carl M Jacobs Foundation is based in OH.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

Carl M Jacobs Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$805k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 26
Grants FY2025: 26
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $285,000
Organizations funded a year: 26 to 28; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $16M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Carl M Jacobs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	26	$805k	4%
FY2024	26	$750k	0%
FY2023	26	$750k	4%
FY2022	27	$830k	0%
FY2021	27	$833k	7%
FY2020	28	$750k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.4MHealth$403kInternational$275kEducation$200kHuman Services$138kEnvironment$85kFood & Nutrition$78kCivil Rights$75kOther$0

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
Cincinnati Museum Association	$1,205,000	6	1%
New York City Ballet Inc	$605,000	6	1%
Museum of Modern Art	$405,000	6	0%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation	$205,000	6	0%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations	$200,000	6	0%
International Rescue Committee INC	$175,000	6	0%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc	$165,000	6	0%
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$150,000	2	0%
Metropolitan Museum of Art	$145,000	6	0%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc	$110,000	6	0%

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All grantees of Carl M Jacobs Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cincinnati Museum Association	$1,205,000	6	1%
New York City Ballet Inc	$605,000	6	1%
Museum of Modern Art	$405,000	6	0%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation	$205,000	6	0%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations	$200,000	6	0%
International Rescue Committee INC	$175,000	6	0%
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc	$165,000	6	0%
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$150,000	2	0%
Metropolitan Museum of Art	$145,000	6	0%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc	$110,000	6	0%
Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc	$95,000	5	0%
The Menninger Clinic Foundation	$90,000	6	57%
American Museum of Natural History	$90,000	6	0%
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc	$90,000	6	0%
Playwrights Horizons Inc	$90,000	6	0%
The Actors' Fund of America	$85,000	6	0%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc	$85,000	6	0%
World Wildlife Fund Inc	$85,000	6	0%
Search and Care Inc	$77,500	6	1%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc	$77,500	6	0%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$75,000	6	0%
Food Bank for New York City	$70,000	5	0%
Phoenix House Foundation Inc	$60,000	6	3%
International Center of Photography	$50,000	5	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$45,000	3	0%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals	$45,000	5	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.

Carl M Jacobs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 26.

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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.

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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 Carl M Jacobs Foundation

How much does Carl M Jacobs Foundation give?: Carl M Jacobs Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $805,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Carl M Jacobs Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Health (7%), International (5%).
Who are Carl M Jacobs Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cincinnati Museum Association ($1.2M), New York City Ballet Inc ($605k), Museum of Modern Art ($405k).
Does Carl M Jacobs Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carl M Jacobs 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 Carl M Jacobs Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Carl M Jacobs Foundation based?: Carl M Jacobs Foundation is based in OH.