· Private foundation
Jacoby Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACOBY ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ALTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| RIVER BEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| SENIOR SERVICES PLUS INC | $2,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RIVER BEND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| ALTON AREA ANIMAL AID ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS | $1,500 |
| ALTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON INC | $1,500 |
| PRIDE INC | $1,500 |
| ALTON LITTLE THEATER | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 5% of your 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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RHRIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +69%
- SSSENIOR SERVICES PLUS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +30%
- AAALTON AREA ANIMAL AID ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- AMALTON MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $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.
To provide the city of alton, iowa with economic development possibilities ranging from residential, industrial and commercial development. the organization will make available places of residence and work attracting people to the city of…
To enhance sports programs in the alton school district by using funds available to meet the needs that are not covered by the alton school district athletic budget.
Further music opportunities for youth and community members in Alton area
Preservation and display of local history
Neighborhood and community development
Educational
The mission and purpose of alton community services is to provide relief to the poor, the distressed or underprivileged throughout alton and the surrounding area by meeting their physical and spiritual needs through the provision of food,…
Senior citizen programs through the area agency on aging which provides a center, services, congregate meals and home delivery meals.
Recreational activities, volunteerisn & quality of life
Community service
1. to produce quality live theatre that is entertaining & intellectually stimulating. 2. to provide an avocational outlet for area residents to express themselves creatively in all facets of the theatre arts. 3. to foster appreciation for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Alton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pride Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds ALTON AREA ANIMAL AID ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PRIDE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON INC ↗
- Who funds ALTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ALTON LITTLE THEATER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALTON CONCERT ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Jacoby 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.