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Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA | $100 |
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 (FY17–20, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 44 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA3× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +170%
- GLGREATER LANSING FOOD BANK2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +29%
- HOHOSPICE OF LANSING4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (FINEDGE)one grant, 2022 · $219k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $121k
- LFLATINOS FOR A SECURE RETIREMENTone grant, 2018 · $92k
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.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
CEC works with diverse stakeholders across Detroit to develop critical resources and system-level solutions that address common challenges faced by Detroit families in accessing quality education.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Children's services
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 92 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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds GREATER LANSING FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL AREA GOLF FOR YOUTHS INC ↗
- Who funds WEEKEND SURVIVAL KITS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FINANCIAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA LITERACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Child and Family Charities ↗
- Who funds St Vincent Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT 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: Capital Region Community Foundation · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Lansing Economic Area Partnership · Re Olds Foundation · United Way of South Central Michigan · Desk Drawer Fund · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Comerica Charitable 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 Jackson Charitable Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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