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Frank H Jernigan Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Religion$150kEducation$118kHealth$100kCivil Rights$68kHousing & Shelter$54kInternational$39kArts & Culture$39kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCGEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
MCGEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH$15,000
WARING SCHOOL INC$3,000
NYC ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC$2,500
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$2,500
MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA$2,000
TIDES CENTER$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$2,000
TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC$2,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$1,500
BAD RAP$1,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$1,000
GLOBAL EXCHANGE$1,000
KQED INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 22%HAIGHT ASHBURY FOOD PROGRAM: $11k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $6k → 14%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 22%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $2k → 22%HAIGHT ASHBURY FOOD PROGRAM: $2k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $1k → 22%HAIGHT ASHBURY FOOD PROGRAM: $2k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%RESOURCES FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INC: $1k → 22%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $2k → 14%ARSOLAS DISTRIBUTION CENTER AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$597k · 26 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$597k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GE
    GLOBAL EXCHANGE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +292%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +10%
  • TN
    TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue +17%
  • BP
    Berkeley Public Schools Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -8%
  • EB
    ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +126%

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.

1
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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4
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco Inc

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education
5
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
6
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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7
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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8
Advance Sf

Advance SF is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco through education, advocacy, and research. The…

Human Services
9
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
10
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
11
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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12
San Francisco Transit Riders

San Francisco Transit Riders is the city's rider-based grassroots advocate forworld-class transit. Together with our members we work for an excellent,affordable, and growing public transit system because it is essential to thecharacter and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hip Hop for Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bad Rap. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%30%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/59
the rest of the field
15%
13,865/95,060

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
32/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCGEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH — $128,550 · OtherMCGEE AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLE — $62,550 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION - SEATTLEYLM FOUNDATION — $31,000 · OtherYLM FOUNDATIONPacific Center for Human Growth — $16,500 · OtherINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC — $15,000 · Other+27 more — $118,600 · Other+27 moreTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC — $36,000 · EducationTESSERACT RESEARCH…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $24,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASH…MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $22,500 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR …WARING SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · EducationWARING SCHOOL INCBerkeley Public Schools Fund — $10,000 · EducationBerkeley Public Sc…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $7,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND I…+3 more — $3,500 · EducationMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $47,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALL…LITTLE OPERA — $13,000 · Arts & CultureLITTLE OPERAINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONA…Intersection for the Arts — $5,000 · Arts & CultureIntersection…+4 more — $5,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreTIDES CENTER — $30,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTE…COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…Haight Ashbury Food Program — $15,000 · Human ServicesHaight Ashb…Resources for Human Development Inc — $13,500 · Human ServicesResources f…Arsolas Distribution Center and Community Services — $5,000 · Human ServicesArsolas Dis…GLOBAL EXCHANGE — $39,000 · InternationalTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $23,500 · Housing & ShelterOakland Elizabeth House — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $12,050 · AnimalsBAD RAP — $3,500 · AnimalsGUATEMALA UNITED FOR ANIMALS INC — $2,500 · AnimalsMUTTVILLE — $1,000 · Animals
Other$372,200Education$123,000Arts & Culture$82,500Human Services$78,500International$39,000Housing & Shelter$28,500Animals$19,050

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $47,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL EXCHANGE — $39,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC — $36,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $23,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWARING SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Center for Human Growth — $16,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHaight Ashbury Food Program — $15,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetResources for Human Development Inc — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE OPERA — $13,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $12,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAITHFUL FOOLS STREET MINISTRY — $12,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA RAZA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S CENTER — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Youth Alliance — $5,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRYSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArsolas Distribution Center and Community Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAD RAP — $3,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANCYS PROJECT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUATEMALA UNITED FOR ANIMALS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIP HOP FOR CHANGE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE FOUNDATION OF SF — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD RUNNERS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKnitted Knockers Support Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTVILLE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KNITTING GUILD ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION — $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRASARTE THE DAMASCENO BRAZILIAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…East Bay Community Fo…Tipping Point Communi…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…ExtrafoodAlameda County Commun…Horizons FoundationUnited Way of the Bay…Marin Community Found…The James Irvine Foun…
The San Francisco FoundationCA32.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Extrafood · Alameda County Community Food Bank · Horizons Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Marin Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation

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 organization Frank H Jernigan Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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