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Jaka Foundation at a glance

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Jaka 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.

$520k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Environment$588kEducation$289kPublic Benefit$200kArts & Culture$180kYouth Development$44k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $470k
$65,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Consumers Research$200,000
Southern Utah University$125,000
The Peregrine Fund$80,000
Hawk Watch International$65,000
Utah Valley University$30,000
Encore Performing Arts$15,000
SouthEast Alaska Land Trust$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%The Peregrine Fund: $100k → 8%SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%Consumers Research: $200k → 14%HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL: $75k → 8%Utah Valley University: $30k → 8%Encore Performing Arts: $15k → 10%Southern Utah University: $125k → 13%American Studio: $100k → 9%SOUTHEAST ALASKA LAND TRUST: $10k → 8%The Peregrine Fund: $80k → 8%Sustainable markets Foundation: $5k → 17%Hawk Watch International: $65k → 8%University Impact: $44k → 8%Encore Performing Arts: $10k → 10%Southern Utah University: $90k → 13%SouthEast Alaska Land Trust: $5k → 8%THE PEREGRINE FUND: $75k → 8%Hawk Watch International: $65k → 8%Encore Performing Arts: $5k → 10%UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50k → 13%The Peregrine Fund: $50k → 8%Junior Achievement of Utah: $44k → 8%HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 8%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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$833k · 6 repeat orgs$424k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$833k
$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $305k · revenue +8%
  • HI
    HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $255k · revenue +96%
  • SA
    SOUTHEAST ALASKA LAND TRUST
    2× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN STUDIO
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • US
    UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho
    one grant, 2023 · $44k · revenue -13%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc

The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…

Science & Tech
5
Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
8
Us-Japan Research Institute Suite 801
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9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
11
The Living Planet Inc

We inspire people to explore, discover and learn about earth's diverse ecosystems.

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12
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawkwatch International Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Studio. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $305,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCSouthern Utah University: $215,000 · OtherSouthern Utah UniversityUTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,000 · OtherUTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $255,000 · AnimalsHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONA…CONSUMERS' RESEARCH INC: $200,000 · Public BenefitCONSUMERS' RESEAR…AMERICAN STUDIO: $100,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ST…ENCORE PERFORMING ARTS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureENCORE PERF…Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $44,444 · InternationalUniversity Impact: $44,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST ALASKA LAND TRUST: $15,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Environment
Other$600,000Animals$255,000Public Benefit$200,000Arts & Culture$130,000International$44,444Education$44,000Environment$27,500

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 budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $305,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $255,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetAMERICAN STUDIO: $100,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $44,444 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUniversity Impact: $44,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCORE PERFORMING ARTS: $30,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA LAND TRUST: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Jaka Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jaka Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 12 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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