Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Jacobs Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $149k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 93
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Jacobs Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $146k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $124k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $165k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $156k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $82k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $93k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 79 | $63k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 93 | $73k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samaritan's Purse | $156,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $30,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Troops First Foundation Incorporated | $29,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Christian Appalachian Project Inc | $28,748 | 9 | 0% |
| Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc | $26,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $20,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $16,500 | 6 | 0% |
| CHRISTIAN YOUTH CRUSADE d/b/a/TEEN QUEST | $16,500 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 128 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 147 recipients with no EIN on record ($370k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jacobs Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Eqt Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Brumit Charitable Foundation · Lester and Cathy Holze Jr Private Foundation · Robertshaw Charitable Foundation · Laurel Highlands · Amica Companies Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Aetna Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Jacobs Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Jacobs Family Foundation Inc give?
- Jacobs Family Foundation Inc reported 58 grants totaling $149,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 93 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jacobs Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), International (17%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Jacobs Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Samaritan's Purse ($156k), Judicial Watch Inc ($30k), Troops First Foundation Incorporated ($30k).
- Does Jacobs Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacobs Family Foundation Inc 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 Jacobs Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eqt Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation.
- Where is Jacobs Family Foundation Inc based?
- Jacobs Family Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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