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Jake Fund
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Jake Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Oregon Jewish Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Jake Fund named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $136k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k21 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND | $22,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE 13-3156445 | $16,000 |
| WILD EARTH GUARDIANS | $12,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO | $6,000 |
| FEMINIST MAJORITY | $5,000 |
| NEGATIVE POPULATION GROWTH | $5,000 |
| BACKLINE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY COUNSELING & EDUCATION CENTER | $4,500 |
| MERCY CORPS | $4,500 |
| ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST | $4,000 |
| CHABAD OF PORTLAND OR | $3,600 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PORTLAND OR (RACHEL'S WELL) | $3,500 |
| TRUMPETER SWAN SOCIETY 23-7220654 | $2,500 |
| MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +79%
ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +755%- APANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2017 · $8k
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%- LPLA PLATA OPEN SPACEone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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).
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To make grants to charitable organizations and programs that support the achievement of sexual and reproductive health (srh) of the poor & underprivileged women and others in the asia-pacific and elsewhere.
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Horizons Foundation ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds All-Options ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Negative Population Growth Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE TRUMPETER SWAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Horizons Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jake Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jake Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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