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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.

$83k
Granted FY2022
21
Grants FY2022
21
Organizations funded FY2022
29%
First-time grantees FY2022
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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

11
’20
10
’21
11
’22
12
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2022
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
17 to 21
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 29% of the organizations Jacobus Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202221$83k29%
FY202118$70k22%
FY202017$60kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Philanthropy$948kHealth$78kHuman Services$56kFood & Nutrition$37kEducation$29kAnimals$24kHousing & Shelter$24kYouth Development$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jacobus Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedical Students for Choice: $24,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSunset Hill Educational Institute Inc: $19,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetHumane Society & Spca of Hancock County: $18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe City Mission of Findlay Ohio: $10,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRed Stocking Fund Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetThe Learning Project Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edgartown Firemen's Associationinc: $8,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHope House Christian Counseling Center: $6,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Nvld Project Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAwakening Minds: $4,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFriends of Ryan Duce Morrissey Scholarship Fund: $3,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe Boston Children's School Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharlestown Youth Hockey Assoc Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGavin Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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 Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Jacobus Family Foundation

How much does Jacobus Family Foundation give?
Jacobus Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $83,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Jacobus Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Health (5%), Human Services (3%).
Who are Jacobus Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($27k), Medical Students for Choice ($24k), Sunset Hill Educational Institute Inc ($20k).
Does Jacobus Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jacobus 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 Jacobus Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Network for Good.
Where is Jacobus Family Foundation based?
Jacobus Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 34 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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