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Jacob Burns Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREAT BARRINGTON PUBLIC THEATER | $33,500 |
| GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $30,000 |
| CHARITABLE DONATIONS BELOW 1000 THRESHOLD | $25,351 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ARTSWESTCHESTER | $23,100 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $21,000 |
| BOCA RATON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| BENJAMIN N CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW | $15,000 |
| JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER | $15,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $8,000 |
| NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY | $6,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER | $5,500 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS | $5,000 |
| THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 11 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- AIARTSWESTCHESTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +57%
- TGThe George Washington University5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +22%
- JBJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $96k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- UFUJA FEDERAL NEW YORKone grant, 2023 · $20k
- THTHE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +391%
- BBBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -80%
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.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Nmoa mission statement is: we welcome everyone with inclusive experiences that spark curiosity and foster community.
Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.
Winterthur builds upon the vision of Henry Francis du Pont to inspire and educate through its collections, estate, and academic programs by engaging diverse audiences in the study, preservation, and interpretation of American material…
The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Barnes Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Deerfield Island Park 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
96 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. 96 of the 158 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 ARTSWESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON PUBLIC THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Boca Raton Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TEATOWN LAKE RESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE ASSISTED THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds DEERFIELD BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE WINGMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brain Bowl Events Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DEERFIELD ISLAND PARK INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY 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: Ibm International Foundation · Herbert & Rosalie Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Buchwald Family Foundation · EM Lynn Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Cloudsplitter Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation
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 Jacob Burns Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sheffield Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Guthrie Center Corp — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Enzian Theater Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
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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