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Jackson Kemper Foundation at a glance

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Jackson Kemper Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$4.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$40MHealth$12MHuman Services$4.0MEnvironment$2.6MReligion$2.6MFood & Nutrition$1.5MEducation$221kYouth Development$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+18 grants · $14M
$225,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMIGOS DE HONDURAS$4,169,486
TRINITY HOPE$1,500,000
PREDISAN - USA INC$1,000,701
HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION HHF$1,000,000
FISTULA FOUNDATION$587,381
ORBIS INTERNATIONAL$512,608
KIDS ALIVE INTERNATIONAL$506,500
HOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN$500,000
MY AGRO$500,000
ONE ACRE FUND$500,000
CAMBODIAN CHILDREN'S FUND$500,000
CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS$400,000
EL PORVENIR$392,767
SEVA$341,200
EMERGENCY USA$330,000
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 5%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $420k → 10%EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA: $100k → 9%CURING KIDS CANCER: $10k → 8%OPERATION COMBAT BIKESAVER INC: $5k → 15%CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $400k → 10%EL AYUDANTE MISSIONS USA: $100k → 9%CURING KIDS CANCER: $10k → 8%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
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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
AZ
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Jackson Kemper Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jackson Kemper Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77M · 59 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
8

Total granted

$77M
$565k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+14%

Still filing today

73%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • AD
    Amigos de Honduras
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11M · revenue +66% · 84% of their budget
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +89%
  • The Fistula Foundation
    7× · 2018–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • HM
    HELLENIC MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $212k
  • TL
    THE LUKE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $155k · revenue +14%
  • AL
    AGC LTD
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
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.

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
International Development Enterprises

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

International
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
8
Helen Keller International

Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…

International
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
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
11
Audere

We apply our passion for technology to the challenge of improving global health for the world's most resource-limited communities.

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12
Oxfam-America Inc

Oxfam america (oxfam or oa) is a global organization that fights inequality to end poverty and injustice. we offer lifesaving support in times of crisis and advocate for economic justice, gender equality, and climate action.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Community; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 71 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
36/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Amigos de Honduras: $11,482,112 · InternationalAmigos de HondurasMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,400,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCPREDISAN USA INC: $3,167,559 · InternationalPREDISAN USA INCKids Alive International Inc: $2,995,762 · InternationalKids Alive International IncTRINITY HOPE INC: $2,500,000 · InternationalTRINITY HOPE INCPROJECT MERCY INC: $2,350,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND: $2,150,000 · InternationalHOPEETHIOPIA INC: $2,113,206 · InternationalEL PORVENIR: $1,650,873 · International+16 more: $11,555,259 · International+16 moreSEVA: $2,806,200 · OtherSEVAALLENDALE ASSOCIATION: $1,900,000 · OtherALLENDALE ASSOCIATI…ORBIS INTERNATIONAL: $1,865,390 · OtherORBIS INTERNATIONALMY AGRO: $1,400,000 · OtherMY AGROHOPE FOR HAITI'S CHILDREN: $1,285,611 · OtherHOPE FOR HAITI'S CH…HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION HHF: $1,000,000 · OtherHAITIAN HEALTH FOUN…HELLENIC MISSIONARY UNIONS: $669,605 · OtherMYAGRO FARMS: $500,000 · OtherCLINICIA SAN LUCAS GRACIA: $474,000 · Other+23 more: $2,040,832 · Other+23 moreCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $3,583,562 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLO…CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $2,135,317 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF…EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $1,700,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL R…El Ayudante Missions USA Inc: $300,000 · Human Services+3 more: $55,000 · Human ServicesThe Fistula Foundation: $5,987,381 · HealthThe Fistu…The Against Malaria Foundation: $500,000 · HealthThe Again…Cambodian Childrens Fund: $2,150,598 · PhilanthropyKICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC: $970,000 · PhilanthropyGREEN EMPOWERMENT: $675,000 · PhilanthropySIWOK Foundation: $573,000 · Food & NutritionBUILD A DREAM: $117,955 · Community Improvement
International$46,364,771Other$13,941,638Human Services$7,773,879Health$6,487,381Philanthropy$3,795,598Food & Nutrition$573,000Community Improvement$117,955

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmigos de Honduras: $11,482,112 over 5y, 84% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,400,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $5,987,381 over 7y, 10% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $3,583,562 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPREDISAN USA INC: $3,167,559 over 5y, 32% of budgetKids Alive International Inc: $2,995,762 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetTRINITY HOPE INC: $2,500,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetPROJECT MERCY INC: $2,350,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetCambodian Childrens Fund: $2,150,598 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $2,150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE NATIONS: $2,135,317 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetHOPEETHIOPIA INC: $2,113,206 over 5y, 63% of budgetALLENDALE ASSOCIATION: $1,900,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $1,700,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetEL PORVENIR: $1,650,873 over 7y, 20% of budgetHAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,501,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetEMERGENCY USA: $1,374,197 over 5y, 23% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $1,300,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation: $1,200,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetCitta Inc: $1,058,300 over 6y, 29% of budgetThe End Fund Inc: $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC: $970,000 over 5y, 6.1% 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 budgetGREEN EMPOWERMENT: $675,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSIWOK Foundation: $573,000 over 3y, 96% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $500,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY: $460,430 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetEL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC: $450,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetELEVATE ORPHAN: $310,281 over 2y, 23% of budgetEl Ayudante Missions USA Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetAFRICARE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAITI HEALTHCARE PARTNERS: $189,327 over 3y, 76% of budgetTHE LUKE SOCIETY INC: $155,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBUILD A DREAM: $117,955 over 2y, 42% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCuring Kids Cancer Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT GULIAN SOCIETY: $30,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetAGC LTD: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $24,000 over 5y, 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
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.

  • Who funds Amigos de Honduras ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PREDISAN USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
  • Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN OF THE NATIONS ↗
  • Who funds HOPEETHIOPIA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLENDALE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
  • Who funds HAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY USA ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US ↗
  • Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Citta Inc ↗
  • Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
  • Who funds KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
  • Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
  • Who funds Liga International ↗
  • Who funds GREEN EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds SIWOK Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MYAGRO FARMS ↗
  • Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCE COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds EL HOGAR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE ORPHAN ↗

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.

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

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 Kemper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jackson Kemper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
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.

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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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