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J & J Family Foundation

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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$6.1MHealth$3.4MYouth Development$2.2MEnvironment$1.6MArts & Culture$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$303kHuman Services$288kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $662k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$1,000,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$1,000,000
PRAGER U FOUNDATION$500,000
UC REGENTS$125,000
UNITED BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY$100,000
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM$87,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$50,000
RED CROSS$50,000
CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA$50,000
HUDSON INSTITUTE$50,000
GUADALUPE CENTER$50,000
HOOVER INSTITUTION$50,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$40,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$40,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $532k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $5k → 8%THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $2k → 8%GUADALUPE CENTER: $75k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER: $50k → 10%RED CROSS: $250k → 14%GUADALUPE CENTER: $50k → 10%RED CROSS: $50k → 14%GUADALUPE CENTER: $50k → 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

MI
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
VA
TN
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of J & J Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

J & J Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 44 repeat orgs$4.7M to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
27

Total granted

$11M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+48%

Still filing today

70%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    7× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +62%
  • SC
    SANSUM CLINIC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $850k · revenue +33%
  • UB
    UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $503k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2017 · $3.0M
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +70%
  • PU
    PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue +35%

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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
6
The Center for Early Education

The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…

Education
7
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

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8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Life Counseling Center and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Food PantriesYouth Development CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …School Parent OrganizationsJewish Community Organizati…Christian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Domestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%38%35–55yr13%34%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,921

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.

05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 87 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
42/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $3,000,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAPRAGER U FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · OtherPRAGER U FOUNDATIONUC REGENTS — $1,450,000 · OtherUC REGENTSUNVIERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA — $1,450,000 · OtherUNVIERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARAUCSB - UC REGENTS — $975,000 · OtherUCSB - UC REGENTSHARDY BRAIN TRAINING FOUNDATION INC — $967,500 · OtherHARDY BRAIN TRAINING FOUNDATION INC+48 more — $1,331,216 · Other+48 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $950,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …UNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $502,500 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED BOYS A…BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS and GIRL…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR — $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …+2 more — $58,500 · Youth DevelopmentBaylor College of Medicine — $1,000,000 · EducationBaylor Col…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD …PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 · EducationPRAGER UNI…+10 more — $96,700 · Education+10 moreSANSUM CLINIC — $850,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center — $250,000 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC — $102,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Health+2 more — $34,000 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,000,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $300,000 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center Inc — $225,000 · Human Services+1 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesCATO INSTITUTE — $200,000 · Public Benefit+2 more — $7,000 · Public Benefit
Other$10,673,716Youth Development$1,986,000Education$1,521,700Health$1,296,000Community Improvement$1,010,000Human Services$532,000Public Benefit$207,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $950,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSANSUM CLINIC — $850,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $502,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC — $300,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc — $225,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR — $175,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA — $150,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC — $102,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY — $50,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA BARBARA BOWL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC — $38,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMARINE MAMMAL CARE CENTER LOS ANGELES — $30,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITE TO LIGHT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $17,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS INC — $17,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE EARTH FARM DISCOVERY PROGRAM — $14,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTown and Country Nursery School Inc — $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEXPLORE ECOLOGY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSON CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT — $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAN CARLOS CHARTER LEARNING CENTER — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Riviera Ridge School — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIGMA PHI EPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN CARLOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Hutton Foundation Dba…Ann Jackson Family Fo…The John C Mithun Fou…The B & B FoundationAlice Tweed Tuohy Fou…Mosher FoundationCalifornia Community …Www FoundationBoys & Girls Clubs of…United Way of Santa B…Patricia Bragg Founda…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The John C Mithun Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · California Community Foundation · Www Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc · Patricia Bragg 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 J & J Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 87 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.

Source object · view filing

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