· Private foundation
James R and Anita Horne Jenkins Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $350,000 |
| MIDLAND COUNTY FOOD ASSIST NETWORK | $25,000 |
| NEW HOPE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| FAITH MINISTRIES BAPTIST CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SECOND BAPTIST OF YPSILANTI CHURCH | $15,000 |
| BETHLEHEM NO 1 MISSIONARY BAPTIST | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $12,500 |
| DOG GONE DITION FESTIVAL | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 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; $38k 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
- CDCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +168%
- MCMidland Center for the Arts Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $750k · revenue +107%
- SMST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +5%
Funded once
University of Chicagograduatedone grant, 2017 · $700k · revenue +56%- EFEKKLESIA FELLOWHIP MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $45k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -22%
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.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers, through its Midtown Center for boys and Metro Achievement Center for girls, helps close the achievement gap for Chicago's urban youth ages eight through eighteen.
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
Provide an interactive learning environment for children to foster imagination and creativity while inspiring life-long learning
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Local circles offers young detroiters an employment opportunity in youth- led research. by employing youth to do research, local circles intervenes on two simultaneous social issues facing young detroiters today: youth unemployment and…
To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is Quad Cities Jazz Festival Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 68 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 COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF COLORS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds ADOPTION OPTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Midland ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds RUTH ELLIS CENTER ↗
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: Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Yeo & Yeo Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · Wm McNally Family Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Ann Arbor Area Community 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 R and Anita Horne Jenkins 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.
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.
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