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James Douglas Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182023.

Arts & Culture$16kHuman Services$8kEducation$3kFood & Nutrition$1kSocial Science$1kYouth Development$198
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
C G JUNG FOUNDATION FOR ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY INC$1,000
PHILEMON FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY19–19, $198) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%SISTER TO SISTER OF MONTCLAIR MENTORING GROUP INCO: $198 → 16%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.

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10k · 3 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +394% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$10k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+394%
-30%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPublic BenefitHuman ServicesSocial 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

  • MA
    MONTCLAIR AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +394%
  • NA
    NEVER ALONE AGAIN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORGANIZATION R
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue -35%

Funded once

  • AI
    ALJIRA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -92%
  • Jack and Jill of America Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +139%
  • GB
    Give Back a New Jersey Non Profit Corp Zetlin & DeChiara LLP
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -95%

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
The Ji Ji Foundation
Human Services
2
Cg Jung Institute of New York Inc

The C.G. Jung Institute of New York offers a post-graduate clinical training program that prepares its students for a professional practice as a Jungian psychoanalyst and membership within a worldwide community of Jungian analysts. The…

3
Ajj Scholarship Fund Incorporated
Education
4
The Julian Chang Family Foundation for Dravet
Health
5
The Jir Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity Scholarship & Development Foundation of Jacksonvill

To provide scholarships for college students

Education
7
Kappa Guide Right & Scholarship Fund of Montclair Nj

The organizations mission is to raise funds to award scholarships to high school seniors and support our student mentoring program.

Education
8
Cg Jung Study Center

To train psychotherapists and other students to become jungian analysts by providing them with advanced analytical training via program focused on teachings of c.g. jung. we encourage individual research and publication on all aspects of…

Social Science
9
Ccg Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
Philanthropy
10
The J Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Dr Maya Angelou Foundation
12
Jaf Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sister to Sister of Montclair Mentoring Group 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALJIRA INC — $12,000 · OtherALJIRA INCNEVER ALONE AGAIN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORGANIZATION R — $3,223 · OtherNEVER ALONE AGAIN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ORGANIZATION RJack and Jill of America Foundation Inc — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentJack and Jill of Am…MONTCLAIR AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $4,310 · Public BenefitMONTCLAIR AFRICA…SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationSAN FRANCIS…CG JUNG FOUNDATION FOR ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY INC — $1,000 · EducationCG JUNG FOU…Give Back a New Jersey Non Profit Corp Zetlin & DeChiara LLP — $1,000 · Food & NutritionPHILEMON FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Social ScienceSISTER TO SISTER OF MONTCLAIR MENTORING GROUP INC — $198 · Human Services
Other$15,223Youth Development$5,000Public Benefit$4,310Education$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,000Social Science$1,000Human Services$198

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALJIRA INC — $12,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJack and Jill of America Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTCLAIR AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $4,310 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGive Back a New Jersey Non Profit Corp Zetlin & DeChiara LLP — $1,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPHILEMON FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCG JUNG FOUNDATION FOR ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Douglas Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 James Douglas Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James Douglas Family Foundation 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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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