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James & Betty Jacobs Family Charitable Trust C/O Jeff Jacobs at a glance

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James & Betty Jacobs Family Charitable Trust C/O Jeff Jacobs

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$349k
Granted FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$251kHealth$195kHousing & Shelter$173kFood & Nutrition$154kHuman Services$151kArts & Culture$146kEnvironment$120kReligion$91kOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k68 grants · $204k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SARAH'S HOUSE$10,000
MAINE COASTAL HERITAGE TRUST$10,000
TREE OF LIFE$10,000
DESIGN WALL HOUSING$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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%SENIORS PLUS: $5k → 13%NEW HOPE FOR WOMEN: $1k → 11%WELCOM TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK: $7k → 15%OPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 11%OPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 11%OPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 11%OPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 11%TREE OF LIFE: $10k → 11%TREE OF LIFE: $10k → 11%TREE OF LIFE: $8k → 11%TREE OF LIFE: $7k → 11%TREE OF LIFE: $5k → 11%TREE OF LIFE: $5k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 80 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+50%

Still filing today

43%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BC
    BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +39% · 46% of their budget
  • MP
    Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +68%
  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • WT
    WELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -96%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF ME
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +50%
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
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
2
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
3
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
4
University of New England

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.

Education
5
Maine Media College

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…

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6
Sail Maine

To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
7
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
8
Bangor Theological Seminary
Religion
9
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

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…

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10
MaineHealth

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…

Health
11
Manufacturers Association of Maine

The manufacturers association of maine is dedicated to promoting and strengthening manufacturing in maine as an informative voice for the state's manufacturing community.

—
12
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAULS APOSTLE PARISH: $90,500 · OtherST PAULS APOSTLE PARISHHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $81,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYRED CROSS: $78,000 · OtherRED CROSSSARAH'S HOUSE: $65,000 · OtherSARAH'S HOUSEALL SAINTS SCHOOL: $51,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY -: $48,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HOLBROOK ISLAND SANCTUARY: $36,000 · Other+65 more: $600,500 · Other+65 moreBRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK …Bowdoin College: $30,000 · EducationBowdoin Co…ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $13,500 · EducationASSUMPTION…THOMAS COLLEGE: $11,500 · EducationTHOMAS COL…PATTEN FREE LIBRARY: $8,000 · EducationNATIONAL DIGITAL EQUITY CENTER: $6,000 · EducationHyde School: $5,500 · Education+2 more: $5,000 · EducationTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $53,000 · HealthTHE JACKS…House in the Woods Inc: $34,500 · HealthHouse in …SHEPHERDS GODPARENT HOME: $33,000 · HealthSHEPHERDS…AN ANGEL'S WING INC: $16,000 · HealthAN ANGEL'…+2 more: $6,000 · HealthMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Pub…NEW ENGLAND STEAM CORPORATION: $20,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLA…Maine Maritime Museum: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Mar…DOWNEAST RAIL HERITAGE PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureDOWNEAST …Brooks Preservation Society: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,000 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE JUNCTION DEPOT FRIENDS: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $59,500 · EnvironmentMaine Island Trail Association: $14,500 · EnvironmentTREE OF LIFE INC: $44,500 · Human ServicesWELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK: $7,000 · Human ServicesOPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSENIORSPLUS: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $4,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsMIDCOAST YOUTH HOCKEY: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,050,000Education$159,500Health$142,500Arts & Culture$136,000Environment$74,000Human Services$67,500Recreation & Sports$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRUNSWICK COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 6y, 46% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $59,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $53,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTREE OF LIFE INC: $44,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetHouse in the Woods Inc: $34,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSHEPHERDS GODPARENT HOME: $33,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBowdoin College: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHonor Flight Maine Inc: $22,250 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetNEW ENGLAND STEAM CORPORATION: $20,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetMAINE HOSPICE COUNCIL & CENTER FOR END-OF-LIFE CARE: $18,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $18,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAN ANGEL'S WING INC: $16,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $14,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNEAST RAIL HERITAGE PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $13,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLLEGE: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC DBA THE APPRENTICESHOP: $11,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPATTEN FREE LIBRARY: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME TO HOUSING HOME GOODS BANK: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBrooks Preservation Society: $7,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBANGOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $7,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGREENVILLE JUNCTION DEPOT FRIENDS: $7,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DIGITAL EQUITY CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPIATE FREE ISLAND PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,500 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetHyde School: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORSPLUS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH HOCKEY: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND MAINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDMAX FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Center for Coastal Fisheries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HOPE FOR WOMEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Davis Family Foundati…Bangor Savings Bank F…Fisher Charitable Fou…Elmina B Sewall Found…Maine Health Access F…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…Simmons Foundation - …John T Gorman Foundat…Mildred H McEvoy Foun…Reny Charitable Found…Libra Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME34.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James & Betty Jacobs Family Charitable Trust C/O Jeff Jacobs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James & Betty Jacobs Family Charitable Trust C/O Jeff Jacobs. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 106 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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