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Jacara Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$463k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$229k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$858kEducation$164kEnvironment$88kHealth$74kReligion$59kYouth Development$30kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $386k
$9,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sid Jacobson JCC$228,544
Duke Univeristy$80,000
Walker Wild Life Films$77,700
Children's Medical Fund of NY$27,030
Sunrise Association$25,000
Congregation L'Dor'Dor$9,000
Koeing Childrens Cancer Foundation$5,000
FAU Foundation$5,000
We Play it Forward$3,000
Old Westbury PBA$1,500
Francis T Maloney High School$850
Walt Witman High School$456
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $857k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Sunrise Association: $110k → 6%Sunrise Association: $50k → 6%Sunrise Association: $25k → 6%Sid Jacobson JCC: $229k → 6%Sid Jacobson JCC: $225k → 6%Sid Jacobson JCC: $218k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+23%

Still filing today

44%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SJ
    SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $672k · revenue +13%
  • FA
    FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +17%
  • OW
    OLD WESTBURY PBA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • GA
    GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +52%
  • CC
    Central Campus DesMoines Public Schools
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

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2
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
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.

—
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The Gruber Foundation

The gruber foundation honors individuals in the fields of cosmology, genetics, neuroscience, justice, and women's rights, whose groundbreaking work provides new models that inspire and enable fundamental shifts in knowledge and culture.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Old Westbury Pba Inc. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $671,544 · Human ServicesSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INCChildren's Medical Fund of NY: $64,060 · OtherChildren's Medica…CONGREGATION L DOR V DOR: $59,000 · OtherCONGREGATION L DO…Individual grant recipient: $39,600 · OtherIndividual grant …Ediwn O Smith High School: $15,000 · OtherEdiwn O Smith Hig…Central Campus DesMoines Public Schools: $7,000 · Other+8 more: $21,587 · Other+8 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVER…FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · EducationFLORIDA ATL…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationWalker Wildlife Films Inc: $77,700 · Arts & CultureGROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentOLD WESTBURY PBA INC: $4,500 · Public BenefitNFA FOUNDATION INC: $2,416 · Philanthropy
Human Services$856,544Other$206,247Education$136,000Arts & Culture$77,700Animals$30,000Environment$10,000Public Benefit$4,500Philanthropy$2,416

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $671,544 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $185,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalker Wildlife Films Inc: $77,700 over 1y, 88% of budgetFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOLD WESTBURY PBA INC: $4,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNFA FOUNDATION INC: $2,416 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Walker Wildlife Films Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD WESTBURY PBA INC ↗
  • Who funds NFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VARIETY CHILD LEARNING CENTER ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jacara Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacara Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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