· Private foundation
Jacobs Engineering Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of JACOBS ENGINEERING FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 363 grants below total $2,338,781 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,560,312 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,221,531 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k299 grants · $813k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $933k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $593k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AASHTO | $125,000 |
| ULI THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE | $75,500 |
| WATER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $65,331 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS | $60,000 |
| US WATER ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND | $57,500 |
| WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| HOAG CHARITY SPORTS | $50,000 |
| LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS | $38,000 |
| COMTO | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS | $32,000 |
| BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $25,000 |
| LOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS | $25,000 |
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.
34 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 257 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- AAASHTO2× · 2022–2024 · $247k
- NSNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS2× · 2022–2024 · $153k
- NANATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES2× · 2022–2024 · $105k
Funded once
- USUNITED STATES COMM FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- UWUS WATER ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +32%
- TWTHE WATER RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue -1%
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.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…
The business association and voice of america's engineering industry, representing thousands of independent u.s. engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, water, and other public and commercial facilities.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The mission of acec of washington is to further the overall business development of the consulting engineering, land surveying and affiliate member firms in private practice.
WEF's mission is inspiring the water community in pursuit of human and environmental well-being. WEF is a global environmental leader committed to water quality education and technical best practices. WEF connects water professionals;…
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Association of State Floodplain Managers Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cooper Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
163 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. 163 of the 573 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 US WATER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE WATER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FORUM FOR BLACK PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS INC ↗
- Who funds OIC OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANTIC NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION & THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
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: Water Environment Federation · AARP · Transitcenter Inc · Hdr Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Kpf Foundation Co Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC · Pwc Foundation Inc · AT&T Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · The Sidley Austin 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.
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