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J M Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
19
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$290,000
States reached, FY2020
14
Total assets, FY2020
$27M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
VA
DE
AZ
SC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($146k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J M Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $260,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEntitlements How Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe James Madison Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCenter for American Greatness Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFreedomworks Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGarden State Initiative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYankee Institute for Public Policy: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Overseas Memorial Day Association Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNational Review Institute: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntercollegiate Studies Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Cultural Review: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 15.

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.

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation IncWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to J M Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J M Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About J M Foundation

How much does J M Foundation give?
J M Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $1,083,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does J M Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (28%), Youth Development (27%), Public Benefit (19%).
Who are J M Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Boys & Girls Clubs of America ($260k), Entitlements How Inc ($75k), South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ($60k).
Does J M 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 J M Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Donors Trust Inc, Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc.
Where is J M Foundation based?
J M Foundation is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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