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Jack Jennings Foundation Trust

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.

$36k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Jack Jennings Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’23
PhilanthropyFood & NutritionPublic BenefitReligionInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$36k88%
FY20232$3k50%
FY20209$11k56%
FY201917$304k47%
FY201819$88k58%
FY201720$158kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$288kReligion$93kRecreation & Sports$76kPhilanthropy$65kEducation$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kYouth Development$12kEnvironment$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley$275,20022%
Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund$59,00020%
Calvary Chapel Church$53,1403n/a
Calvary Chapel$38,0003n/a
Young Life Foundation$10,8001n/a
One Mind$10,50020%
Santa Barbara City Firefighters Charitable Fund Inc$10,1881n/a
Texas Christian University$5,00010%
Heritage Christian Schools Inc$5,00010%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$4,35030%
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All grantees of Jack Jennings Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley$275,20022%
Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund$59,00020%
Calvary Chapel Church$53,1403n/a
Calvary Chapel$38,0003n/a
Young Life Foundation$10,8001n/a
One Mind$10,50020%
Santa Barbara City Firefighters Charitable Fund Inc$10,1881n/a
Texas Christian University$5,00010%
Heritage Christian Schools Inc$5,00010%
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc$4,35030%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$2,25020%
Santa Barbara Rescue Mission$2,21330%
Women's Economic Ventures$2,20020%
Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation$2,00010%
The West Foundation Inc$1,6001n/a
Olive Crest$1,00010%
Coach Alonzo Watford Sr Inner City Youth Football League$7502n/a
Hillside Christian Church$5002n/a
The Pilgrim Society$25010%
Mission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc$20010%
Every Nation Churches & Ministries$2001n/a
Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc$20010%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$20010%
Kumulani Chapel$2001n/a
Reality Church Inc$2001n/a
The Heart That Gives Foundation$15010%
Pawsitive Pawsibilities$1501n/a
Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa$15010%
Focus on the Family$1501n/a
First Presbyterian Church$1001n/a
Sustainable Vets International Inc$10010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10010%
Vintage Church$1001n/a

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($114k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack Jennings Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAuction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley: $275,200 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNapa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund: $59,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOne Mind: $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTexas Christian University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Christian Schools Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $4,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Rescue Mission: $2,213 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Economic Ventures: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Vintners Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOlive Crest: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pilgrim Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission of Hope Inc Mission of Hope Haiti Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heart That Gives Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Vets International Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment 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.

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About Jack Jennings Foundation Trust

How much does Jack Jennings Foundation Trust give?
Jack Jennings Foundation Trust reported 8 grants totaling $35,869 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jack Jennings Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Religion (15%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are Jack Jennings Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley ($275k), Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund ($59k), Calvary Chapel Church ($53k).
Does Jack Jennings Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jack Jennings Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jack Jennings Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, The US Charitable Gift Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Jack Jennings Foundation Trust based?
Jack Jennings Foundation Trust is based in CA.

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 52 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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