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Jackson Kemper Foundation

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.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

International$40MHealth$12MHuman Services$4.0MEnvironment$2.6MReligion$2.6MFood & Nutrition$1.5MEducation$221kYouth Development$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+15 grants · $13M
$200,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMIGOS DE HONDURAS$3,234,328
FISTULA FOUNDATION$2,200,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSMSF$2,000,000
SEVA$865,000
PREDISAN - USA INC$819,070
HOPE ETHIOPIA$795,206
HAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$500,000
PROJECT MERCY$500,000
CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS$400,000
EMERGENCY USA$295,785
EL PORVENIR$289,300
HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN$285,611
KIDS ALIVE INTERNATIONAL$252,492
LIVING GOODS$250,000
ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY$250,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $7.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA: $100k → 9%CURING KIDS CANCER: $10k → 8%OPERATION COMBAT BIKESAVER INC: $5k → 15%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $420k → 10%EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA: $100k → 9%CURING KIDS CANCER: $10k → 8%OPERATION COMBAT BIKESAVER INC: $5k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 5%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $400k → 10%CURING KIDS CANCER: $10k → 8%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $310k → 10%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $280k → 10%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $227k → 10%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $97k → 10%CHARITYWATER: $962k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $921k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $600k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $600k → 17%CHARITYWATER: $500k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $600k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $600k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $500k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
AZ
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Jackson Kemper Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Jackson Kemper Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$62M · 57 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
9

Total granted

$62M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+30%

Still filing today

74%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • AD
    Amigos de Honduras
    4× · 2021–2024 · $7.3M · revenue +66% · 84% of their budget
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +89%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • TH
    TRINITY HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +30% · 28% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LUKE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $155k · revenue +14%
  • AL
    AGC LTD
    one grant, 2018 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
2
HDIInc

HDI`s mission is to advance world public health and human dignity, especially the health and socioeconomic situation of under-served populations which more others are significantly constrained by preventable, degrading disease.

International
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
Empowering Lives International

Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…

Religion
5
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
6
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
7
Healing Waters International Inc

Healing waters international works to reduce water-related illness and death in developing countries by implementing sustainable projects and programs that make safe drinking water accessible to vulnerable communities and empower local…

International
8
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
9
Water for Good

Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.

International
10
Water to Thrive

Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference

International
11
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International
12
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Community and the most unlike its peers is Veteran Impact Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportLocal History MuseumsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%52%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,516

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.

05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Amigos de Honduras — $7,312,626 · InternationalAmigos de HondurasMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,400,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCKids Alive International Inc — $2,489,262 · InternationalKids Alive International IncPROJECT MERCY INC — $2,350,000 · InternationalPROJECT MERCY INCPREDISAN USA INC — $2,166,858 · InternationalPREDISAN USA INCHOPEETHIOPIA INC — $1,795,206 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND — $1,650,000 · InternationalEL PORVENIR — $1,258,106 · International+17 more — $11,154,259 · International+17 moreSEVA — $2,465,000 · OtherSEVAALLENDALE ASSOCIATION — $1,900,000 · OtherALLENDALE ASSOCIAT…MY AGRO — $1,400,000 · OtherMY AGROORBIS INTERNATIONAL — $1,352,782 · OtherORBIS INTERNATIONA…HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN — $785,611 · OtherHOPE FOR HAITI'S C…HELLENIC MISSIONARY UNIONS — $669,605 · OtherHELLENIC MISSIONAR…CLINICIA SAN LUCAS GRACIA — $474,000 · Other+21 more — $1,540,000 · Other+21 moreCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $3,583,562 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOB…CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS — $1,735,317 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF …EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT — $1,700,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL RE…+4 more — $245,000 · Human ServicesThe Fistula Foundation — $5,400,000 · HealthThe Fistul…The Against Malaria Foundation — $500,000 · HealthThe Agains…Cambodian Childrens Fund — $1,650,598 · PhilanthropyKICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC — $970,000 · PhilanthropyGREEN EMPOWERMENT — $475,000 · PhilanthropySIWOK Foundation — $423,000 · Food & NutritionBUILD A DREAM — $117,955 · Community Improvement
International$36,576,317Other$10,586,998Human Services$7,263,879Health$5,900,000Philanthropy$3,095,598Food & Nutrition$423,000Community Improvement$117,955

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmigos de Honduras — $7,312,626 over 4y, 84% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,400,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation — $5,400,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $3,583,562 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetKids Alive International Inc — $2,489,262 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetPROJECT MERCY INC — $2,350,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetPREDISAN USA INC — $2,166,858 over 4y, 32% of budgetALLENDALE ASSOCIATION — $1,900,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHOPEETHIOPIA INC — $1,795,206 over 4y, 63% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE NATIONS — $1,735,317 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT — $1,700,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund — $1,650,598 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $1,650,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEL PORVENIR — $1,258,106 over 6y, 17% of budgetHAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $1,210,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetEMERGENCY USA — $1,044,197 over 4y, 23% of budgetThe End Fund Inc — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation — $1,000,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US — $1,000,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTRINITY HOPE INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetKICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC — $970,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetCitta Inc — $858,300 over 5y, 29% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION — $850,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLIVING GOODS — $750,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLiga International — $686,724 over 6y, 57% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation — $500,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN EMPOWERMENT — $475,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY — $460,430 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetEL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC — $450,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetSIWOK Foundation — $423,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetELEVATE ORPHAN — $310,281 over 2y, 23% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICARE — $250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEl Ayudante Missions USA Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHAITI HEALTHCARE PARTNERS — $159,327 over 2y, 76% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC — $155,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBUILD A DREAM — $117,955 over 2y, 42% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCuring Kids Cancer Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAGC LTD — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMOUNT GULIAN SOCIETY — $25,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CINCINNATI CHARITABLE TRUST — $14,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Amigos de Honduras ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PREDISAN USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPEETHIOPIA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
  • Who funds HAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY USA ↗
  • Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Citta Inc ↗
  • Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
  • Who funds Liga International ↗
  • Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREEN EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds EL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SIWOK Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE ORPHAN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICARE ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Express Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…United Way WorldwideBoston Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Thrivent Charitable I…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Express Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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 Kemper Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • South Kent School Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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