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· Public charity

Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc

To address issues affecting african american children and families by investing in programs and services that create a strong foundation for children to thrive long-term.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.5MYouth Development$1.1MHuman Services$763kHealth$585kHousing & Shelter$150kCommunity Improvement$64kArts & Culture$45kEmployment$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $959,914, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,123,611 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $163,697 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $526k
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kodjoe Family Foundation$150,000
JACK AND JILL OF AMERICA INC$109,500
UNCF$66,667
CHICAGO STATE FOUNDATION$50,000
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
FLORIDA A&M$50,000
JACK AND JILL OF AMERICA INC$32,147
Morgan State University$30,863
NCNW$25,000
Southern University$20,849
WILEY UNIVERSITY$14,848
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY$11,559
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HEPH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $293k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THREE RIVERS YOUTH: $10k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATIO: $10k → 11%VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB NEWBURGH INC: $5k → 14%CARES MOVEMENT: $25k → 17%FLITE CENTER: $10k → 13%CALEB'S KIDS: $11k → 21%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%COBURN PLACE SAFE HAVEN: $10k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY: $10k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%SISTER TO SISTER INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 9%FLITE CENTER: $5k → 13%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%THE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES INC: $10k → 15%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 21%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $8k → 15%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 8%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY: $8k → 8%CALEBS KIDS: $10k → 21%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%METROPOLITICAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%CALUMET CENTER OF METROPOLITAN FAMI: $10k → 14%CALUMET CENTER OF METROPOLITAN: $10k → 14%NEW MOMS INC: $10k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'SVILLAGES ILLINOIS: $8k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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CO
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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 39% of the giving stays in DC; by stated purpose, 31%.

Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 45 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
107

Total granted

$3.1M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+23%

Still filing today

80%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $592k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $614k · revenue +99%
  • JJ
    JACK & JILL OF AMERICA INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $365k · revenue +155%
  • CS
    Chicago State Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • SI
    SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE
    one grant, 2021 · $172k
  • AS
    ALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $129k
  • UD
    UNIVERSITY DISTRICT OF COLUMB
    one grant, 2024 · $61k
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
Link Unlimited Scholars

To connect Black students with resources and opportunities that strengthen the necessary skills to succeed as they advance to, through, and beyond college.

Education
2
Building Bridges Education

Building Bridges Education (BBE) is a non-profit organization at the forefront of creating transformative, high-impact programming. BBE is committed to equity-driven initiatives that empower students to embark on journeys of…

Education
3
Collegespring Inc

In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…

Education
4
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
5
Student U

Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.

Education
6
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
7
Parent Institute for Quality Education Inc

To provide families with the knowledge and skills to partner with schools and communities to ensure their children achieve their full potential.

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8
Inroads Inc

To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.

Education
9
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
10
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
11
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
12
College Aim Inc

To provide expert coaching from ninth grade through college graduation, and work to dismantle systemic racial and economic barriers, so that greater atlanta students are able to achieve their ambitions.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Moms Inc; the most unlike its peers is Common Table Health Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

129 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 129 of the 182 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/129
Grantees still filing
83/129
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JACK AND JILL OF AMERICA INC: $985,166 · OtherJACK AND JILL OF AMERICA INCJACK & JILL OF AMERICA INC: $364,556 · OtherJACK & JILL OF AMERICA INCSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE: $171,800 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALEALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY: $129,024 · Other+77 more: $1,257,791 · Other+77 moreUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $613,616 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCChicago State Foundation: $90,000 · EducationChicago State FoundationLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $71,465 · EducationTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $64,987 · Education+39 more: $694,757 · Education+39 moreCalebs Kids: $40,165 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $38,500 · Human ServicesNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesSISTER TO SISTER INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $20,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $18,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA INDEPENDENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human Services+10 more: $88,000 · Human ServicesThe Blue Heart Foundation: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOR INC: $17,400 · Youth DevelopmentSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE STEM CONNECTION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK PILOTS OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLASS MATTERS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOIN HANDS ESL: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIVE HEALTHY & THRIVE YOUTH FDN: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBROWN GIRLS CODE: $9,957 · Youth DevelopmentENVISION CHILDREN: $9,200 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING BLOCKS 2 SUCCESS INC: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentGASKINS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $15,280 · Youth DevelopmentKodjoe Family Foundation: $150,000 · HealthMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $20,000 · HealthPea Pod Nutrition and Lactation: $10,000 · HealthT Leroy Jefferson Medical Society Inc: $10,000 · HealthThe Defensive Line Inc: $10,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR DELAWARE COUNTY: $9,980 · HealthSickle Cell Foundation Of Palm Beach County Inc: $9,720 · HealthTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGreene Scholars: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNAMI GREATER HOUSTON: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterGreater Charlotte Apartment Association Education Foundation: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterDreamKey Partners Inc: $9,998 · Housing & ShelterDayspring Center Inc: $7,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,908,337Education$1,534,825Human Services$322,665Youth Development$222,837Health$219,700Philanthropy$70,000Housing & Shelter$64,998

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 budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $613,616 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJACK & JILL OF AMERICA INC: $364,556 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetChicago State Foundation: $90,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $71,465 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $64,987 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPhilander Smith College: $50,365 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI Chicago: $45,681 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $44,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalebs Kids: $40,165 over 4y, 27% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $38,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $35,109 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY: $30,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $29,458 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $29,107 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $29,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $29,077 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARIES: $29,062 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $28,888 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $27,596 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMON TABLE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER TO SISTER INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Blue Heart Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWEB DUBOIS SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Survivors of Torture: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreene Scholars: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSTARS MATH AND ENGLISH ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $18,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLawrence Hall: $18,225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $17,829 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLaw and Leadership Institute LLC: $17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOR INC: $17,400 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFLORIDA INDEPENDENCE TRAINING & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Tom Joyner Foundation…Strada Education Foun…National Basketball A…Annie E Casey Foundat…Educational Credit Ma…Enterprise Holdings F…Td Charitable Foundat…United Way of Metropo…Robert R McCormick Fo…Truist Foundation IncUnited Negro College …AT&T Foundation
Tom Joyner Foundation IncTX25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Strada Education Foundation Inc · National Basketball Association Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · United Negro College Fund Inc · AT&T 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 Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Elevate Oregon: 28% of income from government
  • Urban League of Essex County: 20% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
48report 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 182 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 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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