How much did J M FOUNDATION grant in FY2020?

J M FOUNDATION reported 20 grants totaling $1,083,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing.

J M FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

J M FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$1.1M

Granted FY2020

Grants

Communities

$290k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2020 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k13 grants · $255k
$50k–250k4 grants · $271k
$250k+2 grants · $550k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants

HOOVER INSTITUTION$290,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$260,000
BOARD MATCHING GIFTS$85,500
ENTITLEMENTS HOW$75,000
SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL CONSERVATION$60,000
THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC$50,000
CENTER FOR AMERICAN GREATNESS INC$35,000
EMPIRE CENTER$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY$25,000
FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
YANKEE INSTITUTE$25,000
GARDEN STATE INITIATIVE$25,000
INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM$20,000
NY EYE & EAR INFIRMARY$10,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 70% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Public policy research/education dedicated to principles of free enterprise & limited government.

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Quincy Institute for Responsible

The quincy institute promotes ideas that move u.s. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy in the pursuit of international peace. our vision is a world where peace is the norm and war the exception.

Community Improvement

The International Institute for

International

Foreign Policy Research Institute

Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy

International

Center for the National Interest

The center is a non-partisan public policy institution focusing on u.s. foreign policy.

Public Benefit

Free Press

Free press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. free press conducts research on how the current media system influences the development of public policy and educates the public and policy-makers on how a…

Arts & Culture

The Libertarian Institute

Provide information regarding libertarian principles.

Education

The National Foundation for

The national foundation for americn policy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration, and other issues of national importance. the organization seeks to expand the debate over the…

Public Benefit

Independence Institute

Independence institute is established upon the eternal truths of the declaration of independence. founded in 1985, the independence institute is a non-partisan, non-profit public policy research organization, dedicated to providing timely…

Public Benefit

The American Antitrust Institute Inc

Promote competition that protects consumers, business, and society.

Social Science

Institute for Strategic Dialogue-Us

Defending democracy and individual rights against threats to public safety and national security.

Education

American Enterprise Institute for Public

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedomworks Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Carolina Coastal Conservation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

10/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$838,500Education$85,000Environment$60,000Social Science$35,000Public Benefit$35,000Civil Rights$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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.

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 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation IncWI18.1× affinity6 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 · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Morse Charitable Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 organisation J M 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ENTITLEMENTS HOW.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~41 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 813361101 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ENTITLEMENTS HOW, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 41 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to J M Foundation?

Find your warmest path to J M Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

J M FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J M Foundation?

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J M FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to J M Foundation?

More from the funding graph