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Jacobus Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Jacobus Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Jacobus Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $83k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN ARMS (FINDLAY) DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS | $7,500 |
| SHEI-SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| HOPE HOUSE (FINDLAY) | $7,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA OF HANCOCK COUNTY | $7,500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL | $5,500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD YOUTH | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| LEARNING PROJECT | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| RED STOCKING FUND | $2,500 |
| BUNCOMBE COUNTY SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $2,500 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| EDGARTOWN FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- MSMEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +3%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA OF HANCOCK COUNTY3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +166%
- TCTHE CITY MISSION OF FINDLAY OHIO2× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AMAWAKENING MINDSone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +17%
- CCCHARLIE CARESone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Meeting street massachusetts, inc. is an independent, community-based provider of educational and developmental services to children and young adults with and without special needs.
To provide day and residential treatment programs for adults diagnosed with autism or behavioral disorders.
To operate a hockey program for school age children.
The edward m. kennedy institute for the united states senate is dedicated to educating the public about the important role of the united states senate in our system of government, encouraging participatory democracy, invigorating civil…
Massachusetts advocates for children, inc. ("mac") is a non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth. we do so by advocating for and partnering with students and…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
To educate, encourage and empower individuals with intellectual disabilities so they may achieve their full potential to lead high-quality lives and participate meaningfully in the community.
Collaborates to improve the quality and impact of early education and care, enhancing the development of young children and strengthening families in central massachusetts.
Beaverbrook step, inc. is a private, not-for-profit organization which provides residential, day and support services to adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities in eastern massachusetts. the organization assists with the…
Develop and execute programs with respect to the health, education, employment, recreation, and welfare needs of the citizens of charlestown, massachusetts.
North suffolk community services supports individuals and families across the lifespan in their pursuit of independence and stability by providing a comprehensive array of treatment and recovery services. our approach is to intervene as…
Minds matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Martha's Vineyard Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ryan Duce Morrissey Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 36 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
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE ↗
- Who funds Sunset Hill Educational Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA OF HANCOCK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE CITY MISSION OF FINDLAY OHIO ↗
- Who funds RED STOCKING FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDGARTOWN FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Hope House Christian Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds THE NVLD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AWAKENING MINDS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Ryan Duce Morrissey Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON CHILDREN'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTOWN YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds The Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jacobus Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.