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Jamestown Foundation Inc

The jamestown foundation, inc.

$327k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$123k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.3MArts & Culture$756kEnvironment$465kCommunity Improvement$463kCivil Rights$414kHealth$330kEducation$160kHousing & Shelter$88kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $270,327, the rows itemized in this filing. The $327,028 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,701 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION$122,750
FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE$50,000
BILLION OYSTER PROJECT$30,000
WESTSIDE COMMUNITY FUND$25,000
HUDSON GUILD INC$17,800
GEORGIA FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
COMMUNITY FARMERS MARKETS INC$9,000
WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$5,777
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ALAMEDA POINT COLLECTIVE: $10k → 10%SF NEW DEAL: $10k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJECT: $10k → 10%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $5k → 14%ATLANTA CBA ENDOWMENT INC: $6k → 13%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $6k → 17%HUDSON GUILD INC: $54k → 17%HUDSON GUILD INC: $50k → 17%HUDSON GUILD INC: $48k → 17%HUDSON GUILD INC: $25k → 17%HUDSON GUILD INC: $25k → 17%HUDSON GUILD INC: $18k → 17%HUDSON GUILD INC: $17k → 17%UNDER 21 INC: $5k → 17%UNDER 21 INC: $5k → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $38k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$38k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ENRICH THE UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF LONDON AND ALL ITS PEOPLE - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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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 11% of Jamestown Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jamestown Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 29 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
46

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-2%

Still filing today

97%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +89%
  • WI
    WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $310k · revenue +178%
  • HG
    HUDSON GUILDINC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $273k · revenue -73%
  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $252k · revenue +50%
  • TP
    THE PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW YORK CITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +15%
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
3
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
4
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
5
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
8
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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9
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
10
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
11
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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12
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is The American Friends of Fundacion Yannick & Ben Jakober. 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

80 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. 80 of the 82 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
47/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,733,131 · OtherTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCGeorgia Forestry Foundation Inc: $125,001 · OtherMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $110,000 · Other+37 more: $861,020 · Other+37 moreFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $507,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE H…MUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC: $102,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF DESIGN…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INST…BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBRIC ARTS MEDIA …+9 more: $98,457 · Arts & Culture+9 moreATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $251,750 · Food & NutritionATLANTA C…Community Farmers Markets Inc: $165,425 · Food & NutritionCommunity…SPOONFULS: $30,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULSLIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $140,000 · EducationSEAM INC: $100,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationPROJECT DESTINED INC: $50,000 · Education+3 more: $26,400 · EducationSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $272,625 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $47,290 · Civil RightsWE THE PROTESTERS INC: $13,130 · Civil Rights+5 more: $42,720 · Civil RightsWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $309,500 · HealthCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · HealthHUDSON GUILDINC: $236,650 · Human ServicesALAMEDA POINT COLLABORATIVE: $10,450 · Human ServicesSF New Deal: $10,000 · Human ServicesInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNDER 21: $10,000 · Human Services+3 more: $17,575 · Human Services
Other$2,829,152Arts & Culture$817,957Food & Nutrition$472,175Education$391,400Civil Rights$375,765Health$329,500Human Services$294,675

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,733,131 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC: $507,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $309,500 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC: $272,625 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $251,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON GUILDINC: $236,650 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Farmers Markets Inc: $165,425 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGeorgia Forestry Foundation Inc: $125,001 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $110,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF DESIGN-ATLANTA INC: $102,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetSEAM INC: $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW YORK CITY INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA ORGANICS INC: $51,148 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPREA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT DESTINED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $47,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $47,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $42,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $41,573 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $37,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSPOONFULS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $28,514 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $26,970 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SIDE COMMUNITY FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetLIFECYCLE BUILDING CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $22,290 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $20,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe South Fork Conservancy Incorporated: $20,085 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFernbank Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCaptain Planet Foundation Inc: $19,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $16,980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWE THE PROTESTERS INC: $13,130 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrancisco Park Conservancy: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $11,210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ULI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSF New Deal: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Arthur M Blank Fa…The Waterfall Foundat…The Kendeda FundThe Imlay Foundation …The Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…Tull Charitable Found…The Sartain Lanier Fa…The Bessemer Giving F…AEC TrustThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Tides Foundation
The Arthur M Blank Family FoundationGA26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Kendeda Fund · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · AEC Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tides 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 Jamestown Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jamestown Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    27report 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.
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    How do I get to Jamestown Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Jamestown Foundation Inc 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 82 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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