· Private foundation
Jacbel 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS | $28,000 |
| THE SECOND STEP | $18,700 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $15,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD -THE WALK FOR HUNGER | $13,100 |
| CAMP SUNSHINE | $12,500 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $12,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES GREATER BOSTON | $10,000 |
| ACTION FOR POST SOVIET JEWRY INC | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $9,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $9,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS MASS BAY CHAPTER | $9,000 |
| NEWTON FREE LIBRARY | $8,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,017 |
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 (FY19–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
40 repeat relationships — 36 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
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TSTHE SECOND STEP INC6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +14%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $91k · revenue +126%
PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $79k · revenue +180%
Funded once
- CJCOMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF OFone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
- SBSTRIVE BOSTON EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Children's services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 51 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 THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MARGINAL WAY PRESERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jacbel 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% 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.