· Private foundation
James & Betty Jacobs Family Charitable Trust C/O Jeff Jacobs
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of JAMES & BETTY JACOBS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST C/O JEFF JACOBS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k68 grants · $204k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAINE PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK | $25,000 |
| ST PAULS APOSTLE PARISH | $24,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $16,000 |
| BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RED CROSS | $14,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $11,000 |
| MAINE COASTAL HERITAGE TRUST | $10,000 |
| DESIGN WALL HOUSING | $10,000 |
| SARAH'S HOUSE | $10,000 |
| TREE OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| BREWER AREA FOOD PANTRY | $9,000 |
| AN ANGEL WING | $9,000 |
| MIDCOAST HUNGER PREVENTION | $9,000 |
| HOUSE IN THE WOODS | $7,000 |
| ALL SAINTS SCHOOL | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
80 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- BCBRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +39% · 46% of their budget
- MPMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +68%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF MEone grant, 2021 · $7k
- WTWELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANKone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -96%
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +50%
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.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The University of New England prepares students to thrive in a rapidly-changing world and, in so doing, to improve the health of people, communities, and our planet.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.
The mission of the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts is to inspire, engage and educate through the exhibition, preservation and collection of photographic works. The Museums programs address contemporary, historical, cultural and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenville Junction Depot Friends. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 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. 44 of the 106 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 BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds House in the Woods Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS GODPARENT HOME ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds Honor Flight Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND STEAM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE HOSPICE COUNCIL & CENTER FOR END-OF-LIFE CARE ↗
- Who funds ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AN ANGEL'S WING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST RAIL HERITAGE PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE 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.
Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · John T Gorman Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Reny Charitable Foundation · Libra 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 James & Betty Jacobs Family Charitable Trust C/O Jeff Jacobs 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.
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.