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Jacobs Family Foundation at a glance

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Jacobs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$7.2MEducation$155kPhilanthropy$57kHuman Services$13kCrime & Legal$5kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$295Health$165
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,550,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION$2,550,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%REALIZE IMPACT: $25k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 3 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$7.3M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
0%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $7.2M · revenue -192% · 49% of their budget
  • DE
    Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership
    2× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +92%
  • CV
    CHULA VISTA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k

Funded once

  • Realize Impactgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +197%
  • VV
    VIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +19%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +61%
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
Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego

to advance regional contemporary art and artists while fostering cultural equity through access to meaningful art experiences

Arts & Culture
2
San Diego Automotive Museum

The Museum functions as an educational and cultural institutionexercising community responsibility for the preservation of the automotive arts and sciences

Arts & Culture
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Policy & Innovation Center

The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…

Philanthropy
5
The New Childrens Museum

The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…

Arts & Culture
6
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

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7
San Diego Regional Economic Development Foundation

To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.

Community Improvement
8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
Downtown San Diego Public Spaces Foundation

To elevate the quality of life in our urban communities through improvements, services, and activations in downtown's parks and open spaces.

Recreation & Sports
10
Oceanside Museum of Art

Organizations Misson is to be a premier regional art museum for San Diego and Southern California and a leader of arts culture in North County San Diego. OMA fosters and promotes the study, appreciation and understanding of art, with…

Arts & Culture
11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
San Diego Theatres Inc

San Diego Theatres, Inc. (SDTI) is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation established to manage and operate publicly owned performing arts theatres. SDTI was established in 2003 by the San Diego Convention Center Corporation (SDCCC),…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Peoples Association of Justice Advocates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION: $7,169,023 · Community ImprovementTHE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATIONDiamond Educational Excellence Partnership: $150,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationDonors Trust Inc: $57,000 · PhilanthropyRealize Impact: $25,000 · Human ServicesVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $13,000 · Public BenefitPEOPLES ASSOCIATION OF JUSTICE ADVOCATES: $2,500 · OtherCHULA VISTA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $2,050 · OtherMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $1,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $295 · Other+1 more: $165 · OtherCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $250 · Arts & CultureTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $512 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$7,169,023Education$155,000Philanthropy$57,000Human Services$25,000Public Benefit$13,000Other$6,010Arts & Culture$1,250Crime & Legal$512

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 budgetTHE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION: $7,169,023 over 4y, 49% of budgetDiamond Educational Excellence Partnership: $150,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetDonors Trust Inc: $57,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRealize Impact: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS OF SAN DIEGO DBA VETERANS VILLAGE OF SAN DIEGO: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ESCONDIDO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO: $250 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.

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.

The San Diego Foundat…The Parker FoundationThe Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jacobs Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jacobs Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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