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James Family Foundation at a glance

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James Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$178k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Recreation & Sports$1.0MArts & Culture$716kHealth$603kEducation$292kPhilanthropy$220kHuman Services$121kInternational$51kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS$50,000
SFMOMA$27,850
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAM FIRST FAMILY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1k → 10%COACHART: $25k → 14%SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $50k → 14%HARRISBURG UNIT #3 SCHOOLS: $40k → 19%HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND: $25k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $21k → 9%INTERGENERATIONAL GUIDANCE GROUP: $3k → 15%THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $120k → 23%BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK: $500k → 8%SFMoMA: $305k → 10%AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 14%EFFORTS OF GRACE INC: $3k → 23%SFMOMA: $272k → 10%LOVELY BIRDS: $3k → 23%SFMOMA: $52k → 10%NAMI NEW ORLEANS: $3k → 23%SFMOMA: $28k → 10%SFMOMA: $28k → 10%SFMOMA: $28k → 10%CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $60k → 10%CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $50k → 10%CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $35k → 10%CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $25k → 10%Cathedral School for Boys: $25k → 10%STERNE SCHOOL: $10k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
WY
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of James Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

James Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 3 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$1.9M
$907k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthInternationalOther
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

  • FP
    Francisco Park Conservancy
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.0M · revenue -94%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    6× · 2017–2022 · $713k · revenue +37%
  • CS
    CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS
    5× · 2017–2022 · $195k

Funded once

  • BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +89%
  • SF
    SEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -1%
  • FF
    FAM FIRST FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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3
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
4
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
5
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
6
Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co

Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…

Education
7
Segd

Promote awareness of our community and its role in shaping experience. nurture demand for design excellence within the built environment. serve as a source of education and inspiration for our community. continue to define and refine our…

Community Improvement
8
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tipping Point Community; the most unlike its peers is Intergenerational Guidance Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Francisco Park Conservancy: $1,000,000 · Recreation & SportsFrancisco Park ConservancySAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $712,750 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MO…+1 more: $3,333 · Arts & CultureBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $500,000 · HealthBLADDER CANCER ADV…CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS: $195,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL SCHOOL …HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH INC: $100,000 · OtherHACKENSACK MERIDI…FAM FIRST FAMILY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherFAM FIRST FAMILY …HARRISBURG UNIT #3 SCHOOLS: $39,647 · OtherHARRISBURG UNIT #…CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $20,500 · Other+4 more: $19,473 · OtherTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $120,037 · PhilanthropySEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $50,000 · InternationalSpecial Operations Fund: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · EducationSTERNE SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationINTERGENERATIONAL GUIDANCE GROUP: $3,333 · EducationCOACHARTORG: $25,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$1,000,000Arts & Culture$716,083Health$500,000Other$474,620Philanthropy$221,037International$50,000Education$48,333Youth Development$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFrancisco Park Conservancy: $1,000,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $712,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $120,037 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOACHARTORG: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTERNE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEFFORTS OF GRACE INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI NEW ORLEANS INC: $3,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERGENERATIONAL GUIDANCE GROUP: $3,333 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Jewish Community Fede…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to James Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to James 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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