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Jackson Family Foundation Dba the Kidstarter Project
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME COURT | $120,000 |
| BIRTHDAY DREAMS | $34,000 |
| SAFE PLACE | $12,500 |
| CAF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE GOODTIMES PROJECT | $6,000 |
| BBRC FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ENGLISH SPRINGER RESCUE AMERICA | $3,000 |
| EVERETT ANIMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 97% 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
- HCHome Court NW5× · 2018–2022 · $504k · revenue +34%
- BDBirthday Dreams5× · 2018–2024 · $102k · revenue +40%
THE GOODTIMES PROJECT5× · 2018–2024 · $56k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SASAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +54%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CVCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD ANIMAL SANCTUARYone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Washington Bikes works to ensure that all who ride a bicycle in Washington have safe comfortable and convenient places to ride. Organization advocates for bicyclists rights and shapes policies.
Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100%…
WACF is an association of large and small providers promoting safety, permanency and well being for children and families who are involved or at risk of involvement with the child welfare system.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
Washington Alaskan Malamute Adoption League (WAMAL) was formed to help with Malamute Rescue in Washington State and since then has expanded into Oregon. WAMAL rescues, rehabilitates and re-homes Malamutes (or Mal-enough-a-mutes!) who find…
SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
The mission of Courthouse Dogs Foundation is to promote justice with compassion partnering with professionally trained facility dogs to provide support to everyone in the justice system. Most of these dogs are utilized to support children…
Providing services to families of pediatric cancer in Washington State, to reduce every day stressors.
The Foster Parent Association of Washington State (FPAWS) supports foster, kinship, and adoptive families through education, advocacy, and community resources. Our programs equip caregivers with training and essential knowledge on state…
To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocacy Center of Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Home Court Nw. 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 21 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 36 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 Home Court NW ↗
- Who funds Birthday Dreams ↗
- Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Bleeding Disorder Foundation of Washington ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds Team Read ↗
- Who funds SAVE A FORGOTTEN EQUINE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ALLIANCE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds English Springer Rescue America Inc ↗
- Who funds SOULUMINATION ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TWO FEET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds LADYBUG HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds KINDERING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION 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: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Ellison Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Glaser Foundation Inc · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Gates Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Family Foundation Dba the Kidstarter Project 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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