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Gerard Jakobi Tr 4174 FBO Northern

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$4k
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 FY2020–2024.

Education$79kArts & Culture$7kHealth$3k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$369k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$4,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$3,668
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$3,666
BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY$3,666
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS$3,000
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$3,000
CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$3,000
MARIST COLLEGE$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$3,000
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY$3,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$3,000
BARD COLLEGE$2,000
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $4k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON: $1k → 13%SAINT JOSEPHS UNIVERSITY: $500 → 22%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $3k → 14%MARIST COLLEGE: $3k → 9%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $4k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $4k → 12%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%NO HIGHLANDS RGL HSCHOOL: $11k → 7%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $1k → 11%STOCKTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 11%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%VIRGINIA TECH INST & STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 21%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $500 → 9%BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $500 → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON: $1k → 13%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $3k → 14%BARD COLLEGE: $2k → 9%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN: $3k → 12%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY: $500 → 11%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%VIRGINIA TECH INST & STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 21%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $1k → 14%STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 14%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

VT
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
WV
VA
MD
DE
SC

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$42k · 10 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$42k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +51%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +14%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • NH
    NO HIGHLANDS RGL HSCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +17%
  • RU
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $2k

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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
9
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
15/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NO HIGHLANDS RGL HSCHOOL — $11,300 · OtherNO HIGHLANDS RGL HSCHOOLWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY — $5,500 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITYCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND — $4,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLANDUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $4,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARECOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON — $3,666 · OtherCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTONBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,666 · OtherBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA TECH INST & STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,400 · OtherVIRGINIA TECH INST & STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTUniversity of Michigan — $3,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan+4 more — $5,000 · Other+4 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $7,900 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE …QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $3,668 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYNew York University — $3,500 · EducationNew York UniversityUniversity of New Haven — $3,000 · EducationUniversity of New HavenMARIST UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationMARIST UNIVERSITYTrustees of Tufts College — $2,500 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeUniversity of Scranton — $2,000 · EducationUniversity of ScrantonBARD COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGELEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $1,500 · Education+2 more — $1,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $6,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$52,032Education$30,068Arts & Culture$6,900

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $7,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $6,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $3,668 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gerard Jakobi Tr 4174 FBO Northern 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • University of New Haven — 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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