Florida · Private foundation
Jacob Best Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $244k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2026
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 41
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 7
- Total assets, FY2026
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 21% of the organizations Jacob Best Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 36 | $244k | 17% |
| FY2025 | 39 | $222k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $207k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $160k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $200k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $230k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $200k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $189k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Ministries Inc | $153,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Figure 1 Foundation | $75,500 | 8 | 49% |
| Mary Lees House Inc | $68,141 | 8 | 1% |
| Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc | $67,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Academy Prep Center of Tampa Inc | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Beaumont Health Foundation | $51,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Glenwood Academy | $43,613 | 8 | 0% |
| Misericordia Home | $43,113 | 8 | 0% |
| Judson Center Inc | $41,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Lawrence Hall | $41,113 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($462k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jacob Best Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Carls Foundation · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Jacob Best Foundation
- How much does Jacob Best Foundation give?
- Jacob Best Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $244,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 41 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Jacob Best Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Health (21%), Education (14%).
- Who are Jacob Best Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Metropolitan Ministries Inc ($153k), Figure 1 Foundation ($76k), Mary Lees House Inc ($68k).
- Does Jacob Best Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacob Best 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jacob Best Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
- Where is Jacob Best Foundation based?
- Jacob Best Foundation is based in FL.
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