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Jaeger Family Foundation (Fka Irwin J Jaeger Foundation) at a glance

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Jaeger Family Foundation (Fka Irwin J Jaeger 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.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$141kPhilanthropy$115kReligion$41kPublic Benefit$34kYouth Development$25kEducation$11kHealth$5kEnvironment$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$75,000
STRIVE FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IDAHO BASECAMP: $25k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%EDUCATE CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%WWHS ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE NATURE OF CONSERVATION: $100 → 7%ARTWORXLA: $2k → 14%INNER-CITY ARTS: $30k → 14%INNER-CITY ARTS: $29k → 14%EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORP: $20k → 14%EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORP: $13k → 14%INNER-CITY ARTS: $5k → 14%INNER-CITY ARTS: $5k → 14%INNER-CITY ARTS: $5k → 14%CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%STRIVE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $13k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $10k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $9k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $7k → 14%UCLA: $5k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $72 → 14%INNER-CITY ARTS: $50k → 14%STANDARD PLUS FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $2k → 14%SINAI TEMPLE: $72 → 14%INNER-CITY ARTS: $16k → 14%COALITION FOR ENGAGED EDUCATION: $1k → 14%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATE: $22k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $20k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $20k → 14%THE FOUNTAIN THEATER: $100 → 14%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.
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$212k · 3 repeat orgs$229k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$212k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+15%

Still filing today

33%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • IA
    INNER-CITY ARTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +44%
  • ST
    SINAI TEMPLE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $39k
  • ES
    EXECUTIVE SERVICE CORP
    2× · 2020–2021 · $33k

Funded once

  • PF
    PLUS FOUNDATION (FKA STANDARD PLUS FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -42%
  • IB
    IDAHO BASE CAMP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATE
    one grant, 2017 · $22k
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
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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3
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
4
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
5
Inspire Charter School - Los Angeles

Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.

—
6
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…

Education
7
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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8
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
9
Occidental College

See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…

Education
10
The Mirman School for Gifted Children

We cultivate the boundless potential of highly gifted children, nurture their passions and talents, and develop a diverse community of creative and constructive lifelong learners.

Education
11
New Los Angeles Charter School

New los angeles charter school develops a diverse community of students who are passionate about learning, engaged in their community, and have respect for themselves and others.

Education
12
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inner-City Arts; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 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

12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INNER-CITY ARTS: $139,690 · Arts & CultureINNER-CITY ARTS+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSINAI TEMPLE: $39,198 · OtherSINAI TEMPLEEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORP: $32,637 · OtherEXECUTIVE SERVICE CORPJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATE: $21,800 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF G…THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…WWHS ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherWWHS ALUMNI FOUNDATIONUCLA: $5,000 · Other+5 more: $5,700 · OtherCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MED…JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATIO…PLUS FOUNDATION (FKA STANDARD PLUS FOUNDATION): $33,000 · PhilanthropyPLUS FOUNDATION …STRIVE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTRIVE FOUN…IDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitCoalition for Engaged Education: $1,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$141,190Other$134,335Health$75,000Philanthropy$73,000Youth Development$50,000Environment$25,000Public Benefit$1,000Education$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINNER-CITY ARTS: $139,690 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLUS FOUNDATION (FKA STANDARD PLUS FOUNDATION): $33,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetIDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE H E ART PROJECT dba ARTWORXLA: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for Engaged Education: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN THEATRE: $100 over 1y, 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.

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.

California Community …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
California Community FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jaeger Family Foundation (Fka Irwin J Jaeger Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jaeger Family Foundation (Fka Irwin J Jaeger Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Jaeger Family Foundation (Fka Irwin J Jaeger Foundation) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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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