Minnesota · Private foundation
Jacobsen Family Foundation
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.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,458
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,019
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $928k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 64% of the organizations Jacobsen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 | 8 | $38k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $73k | 64% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $50k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $91k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $49k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dwelling Place | $26,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Every Meal | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hosanna Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Housing in Action Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| America Share USA Inc | $12,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Amplify Mission Network | $12,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Arrive Ministries | $10,683 | 5 | 0% |
| Eastern Congo Initiative | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The New Impact Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Start Senior Solutions | $5,538 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dwelling Place | $26,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Every Meal | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hosanna Church | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Housing in Action Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| America Share USA Inc | $12,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Amplify Mission Network | $12,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Arrive Ministries | $10,683 | 5 | 0% |
| Eastern Congo Initiative | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The New Impact Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Start Senior Solutions | $5,538 | 2 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Sicangu Community Development Corporation | $5,300 | 1 | 0% |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Christ Temple Apostolic Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Peters Catholic Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Water Missions International | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Purple Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| CaringBridge | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parkinson's Foundation Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| College of Charleston Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voicez Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Print the Love | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lift Up | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Speranza Theatre Inc | $50 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($112k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jacobsen Family Foundation 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Jacobsen Family Foundation
- How much does Jacobsen Family Foundation give?
- Jacobsen Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $37,977 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jacobsen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Religion (15%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Jacobsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Dwelling Place ($26k), Every Meal ($20k), Hosanna Church ($20k).
- Does Jacobsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacobsen Family Foundation 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 Jacobsen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, American Endowment Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
- Where is Jacobsen Family Foundation based?
- Jacobsen Family Foundation is based in MN.
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