How much does Jackson Howard Foundation give?

Jackson Howard Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $747,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jackson Howard Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Public Benefit (16%), Crime & Legal (15%).

Who are Jackson Howard Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: America First Policy Institute Inc ($1.2M), America First Legal Foundation ($450k), Judicial Watch Inc ($275k).

Does Jackson Howard Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jackson Howard Foundation 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.

Where is Jackson Howard Foundation based?

Jackson Howard Foundation is based in UT.

Jackson Howard Foundation

Jackson Howard Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jackson Howard Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Jackson Howard Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.

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.

$747k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$365k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MPublic Benefit$533kCrime & Legal$500kArts & Culture$304kHealth$195kFood & Nutrition$120kHuman Services$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kOther$0

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $27k
$10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+2 grants · $615k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE	$365,000
AMERICA FIRST LEGAL FOUNDATION	$250,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC	$50,000
TURNING POINT USA	$35,000
UT CO SHERIFFS OFFICE HONORARY COLO	$10,000
CENTER FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM	$10,000
OTHER SIDE ACADEMY	$5,000
TABITHAS LOCAL FOOD PANTRY	$5,000
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD TRUST	$5,000
PLEASANT GROVE HONORARY COLONELS	$5,000
KIDS ON THE MOVE	$5,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION	$2,000

02The need

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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$3.2M · 28 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+93%

Still filing today

61%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCrime & LegalArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

AF
AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +260%
AF
America First Legal Foundation
4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +401%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +141%

Funded once

UV
UT VALLEY UNIV FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $21k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $20k
TI
The Independence Fund Inc
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +13%

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.

Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit

Aclu of Utah Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.

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American Civil Liberties Union of Utah

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Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health

United American Patriots Inc

United American Patriots Inc. Generates Public Awareness, funds legal representation, and provides reintegration support for our Nations Warriors.

Education

Utah Humanities Council

Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…

Arts & Culture

Girl Scouts of Utah

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports

Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports

Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education

Utahns for Responsive Government Dba Better Boundaries

Utahns for a Responsive Government, DBA Better Boundaries mission is to create an independent redistricting process that utilizes voter-centric standards. We use education, advocacy, policy, and the justice system to reach our goal of…

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Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Utah Metropolitan Ballet. 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

28 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. 28 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

22/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,373,672Other$706,229Crime & Legal$510,035Public Benefit$285,100Arts & Culture$235,000Public Safety & Disaster$206,000Philanthropy$26,100

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

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Jackson Howard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jackson Howard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home