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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.

$136k
Granted FY2018
25
Grants FY2018
12
States reached
$25k
Largest

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

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

01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Community Improvement$729kPhilanthropy$259kHuman Services$54kArts & Culture$50kInternational$28kAnimals$19kSocial Science$10kEnvironment$5kCivil Rights$4kOther$101k
02FY2018 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k21 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
$3,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BACKLINE$5,000
FEMINIST MAJORITY$5,000
NEGATIVE POPULATION GROWTH$5,000
MERCY CORPS$4,500
COMMUNITY COUNSELING & EDUCATION CENTER$4,500
ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST$4,000
CHABAD OF PORTLAND OR$3,600
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PORTLAND OR (RACHEL'S WELL)$3,500
MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION$2,500
NORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $22k → 22%COMMUNITY COUNSELING & EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 14%WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND: $12k → 22%COMMUNITY COUNSELING & EDUCATION CENTER: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$204k · 16 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$204k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+688%

Still filing today

56%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’23
Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalEnvironmentArts & CultureSocial ScienceOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +79%
  • ABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +755%
  • AP
    ANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO
    2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%
  • LP
    LA PLATA OPEN SPACE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
The Peregrine Fund Inc

To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.

4
International Snow Leopard Trust

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…

Animals
5
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

6
The Population Council Inc

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…

International
7
Conservation International Foundation

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

Environment
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Arrow

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.

International
9
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

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…

Animals
10
African Wildlife Foundation Inc

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…

Animals
11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

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…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever and the most unlike its peers is Community Counseling Center Inc. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
16/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Horizons Foundation — $728,721 · Community ImprovementHorizons FoundationOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $259,000 · PhilanthropyOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE 13-3156445 — $32,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF…WILD EARTH GUARDIANS — $18,000 · OtherWILD EARTH…Individual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherIndividual…CHABAD OF PORTLAND OR — $7,200 · OtherCHABAD OF …ACLU OF COLORADO — $5,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,400 · OtherFEMINIST MAJORITY — $5,000 · OtherNegative Population Growth Inc — $9,500 · OtherNegative P…ASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $4,000 · Other+14 more — $24,400 · Other+14 moreABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA — $34,000 · Human ServicesAll-Options — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC — $9,500 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $22,000 · InternationalMercy Corps — $4,500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $1,500 · InternationalANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO — $12,000 · AnimalsNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT — $3,500 · AnimalsTHE TRUMPETER SWAN SOCIETY — $3,000 · Animals
Community Improvement$728,721Philanthropy$259,000Other$119,250Human Services$53,500Arts & Culture$50,000International$28,000Animals$18,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHorizons Foundation — $728,721 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetOREGON JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $259,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTION NEW MEXICO — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAll-Options — $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNegative Population Growth Inc — $9,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER INC — $9,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMercy Corps — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMIDWEST ACCESS COALITION — $3,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetNORTHERN JAGUAR PROJECT — $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUMPETER SWAN SOCIETY — $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Negative Population Growth Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER 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

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.

Horizons FoundationCA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jake Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jake Fund?

Find your warmest path to Jake Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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