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Jacobs Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$153kInternational$152kHuman Services$106kPublic Benefit$103kReligion$81kFood & Nutrition$56kCivil Rights$35kYouth Development$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k56 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$8,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$6,000
OPERATION SMILE$6,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$5,500
CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT$5,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,000
INT'L FELLOWSHIP CHRISTIANS & JEWS$5,000
CRU$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$5,000
INDIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$3,500
EASTERSEALS$3,000
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $250 → 12%CORNER CUPBOARD FOODBANK INC: $8k → 13%CHURCH REVITALIZE CENTER: $8k → 7%BUCKNER INTERNATIONAL: $100 → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $300 → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%THE LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$844k · 113 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

113 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
157

Total granted

$844k
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +134%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +141%
  • CA
    CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHURCH REVITALIZE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • CC
    CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +8%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY-DISASTER RELIEF
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
5
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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10
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
11
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pitcairn Camp B. 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

116 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. 116 of the 277 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/116
Grantees still filing
82/116
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $51,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE SALVATION ARMY OF WESTERN PA: $28,500 · OtherTUNNEL TO TOWERS: $23,000 · OtherAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE: $23,000 · OtherCRU: $18,600 · Other+150 more: $399,130 · Other+150 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $156,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE+2 more: $6,750 · ReligionBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCE…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,250 · HealthAMERICAN CA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,500 · HealthST JUDE CHI…American Heart Association Inc: $12,600 · HealthAmerican He…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,350 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $7,500 · HealthPARALYZED V…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $4,800 · Health+11 more: $10,425 · Health+11 moreJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL …TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $29,500 · Public BenefitTROOPS FI…Leadership Institute: $19,000 · Public BenefitLeadershi…THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,200 · Public BenefitCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $28,748 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,100 · Human ServicesCHURCH REVITALIZE CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $7,050 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $3,000 · Human Services+6 more: $5,750 · Human ServicesWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $26,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $2,000 · Food & NutritionHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $12,000 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $8,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Education+2 more: $1,250 · Education
Other$543,730Religion$162,750Health$105,425Public Benefit$82,700Human Services$68,148Food & Nutrition$33,500Education$23,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $156,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $29,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $28,748 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC: $26,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN YOUTH CRUSADE d/b/a/TEEN QUEST: $16,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $11,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $7,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCO2 COALITION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $5,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCare Net: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $4,870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $4,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPITCAIRN CAMP B: $4,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS TO FRIENDS: $2,950 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,500 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds TROOPS FIRST FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN YOUTH CRUSADE d/b/a/TEEN QUEST ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMORELAND CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH REVITALIZE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNER CUPBOARD FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PRO-LIFE ALLIANCE INC ↗

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.

Eqt FoundationThe Pittsburgh Founda…Farrell Family Founda…Brumit Charitable Fou…Lester and Cathy Holz…Robertshaw Charitable…Laurel HighlandsAmica Companies Found…The United Way of Sou…Aetna Foundation IncAbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
Eqt FoundationPA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 277 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home