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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.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$364kHealth$254kFood & Nutrition$220kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kEducation$95kCrime & Legal$78kRecreation & Sports$78kInternational$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k30 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $129k
$4,640
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES GREATER BOSTON$10,000
ACTION FOR POST SOVIET JEWRY INC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY MASSACHUSETTS$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $2k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $15k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2k → 16%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 40 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
9

Total granted

$1.3M
$46k

Still filing today

55%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • TS
    THE SECOND STEP INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +14%
  • THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $91k · revenue +126%
  • PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $79k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • CJ
    COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF OF
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • SJ
    STRIVE JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
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
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
2
Neighborhealth Corporation

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,…

Health
3
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
4
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
5
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
6
Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
8
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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9
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

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.

Human Services
10
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
11
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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12
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
21/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS: $163,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTSTHE SECOND STEP INC: $149,800 · OtherTHE SECOND STEP INCNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $72,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAWAMERICAN RED CROSS MASS BAY CHAPTER: $54,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS MASS BAY CHAPTERNEWTON FREE LIBRARY: $50,384 · OtherNEWTON FREE LIBRARYJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $40,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY MASSACHUSSETS: $32,220 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY MASSACHUSETTS: $30,740 · OtherMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $30,000 · Other+25 more: $224,885 · Other+25 moreTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $90,860 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FO…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMP…COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY S…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO …PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $78,600 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BR…MARTHA'S TABLE INC: $57,000 · Food & NutritionMARTHA'S T…FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $4,800 · Food & NutritionACTION FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY INC: $54,100 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $28,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,920 · InternationalHIAS INC: $6,750 · InternationalCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $77,620 · Recreation & SportsCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $67,840 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $41,754 · EnvironmentMARGINAL WAY PRESERVATION FUND: $11,650 · EnvironmentGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $8,700 · EnvironmentChildren's Hospital Corporation: $22,650 · Health
Other$847,529Human Services$146,360Food & Nutrition$140,400International$102,770Recreation & Sports$77,620Philanthropy$67,840Environment$62,104Health$22,650

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC: $149,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $90,860 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $78,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $77,620 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $67,840 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $57,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACTION FOR POST-SOVIET JEWRY INC: $54,100 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $41,754 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $40,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $22,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $13,920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARGINAL WAY PRESERVATION FUND: $11,650 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNEEDHAM COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT WORKS REGIONAL LAND TRUST: $8,700 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $6,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $4,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $2,000 over 6y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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