· Private foundation
Herb and Maxine Jacobs Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAITON | $250,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE HOUSING FOUNDATION | $245,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $180,000 |
| TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDA | $165,000 |
| MASSBAY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST | $125,000 |
| HACK DIVERSITY INC | $95,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $62,175 |
| ALRAY TAYLOR SECONDCHANCE | $60,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CIVIC HEART COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| STEPS TO SUCCESS | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +63%
Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $939k · revenue +88%- FSFRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $367k · revenue +403%
Funded once
- SSKILLWORKSone grant, 2020 · $75k
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
- TSTSNESTS STEOPS TO SUCCESSone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Boston Higher Education Resource Center equips first generation youth to obtain a higher education, break the cycle of poverty, and become agents of change in their communities.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
Scholarships are awarded to highlight the acedemic excellence of high school seniors in the community
To encourage, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for educational and charitable purposes for the advancement of berkshire community college.
To provide academically excellent, time-efficient and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied.
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Houston Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds HACK DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ALRAY TAYLOR SECOND CHANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY WOMENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Civic Heart Community Services ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
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 Herb and Maxine Jacobs 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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