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Jamieson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2020
5
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$350k
Largest
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 2020.

Health$670kArts & Culture$266kPhilanthropy$114kHuman Services$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kAnimals$15kInternational$15kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2020 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $29k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
  • $250k+3 grants · $900k
$250,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND$350,000
UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$300,000
CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$250,000
TOWERS FOUNDATION$75,000
FRAZER FOUNDATION$28,727
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 14%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$822k · 9 repeat orgs$344k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$822k
$15k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
PhilanthropyArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +46%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +81%
  • TD
    TOP DOG FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SJ
    ST JUDE'S RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
International Committee of the Red Cross

The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…

International
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
4
International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Soc At the Un Inc
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5
The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health
6
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
7
Angels for Sara Sanctuary

Rescue senior dogs from shelters; people who go into nursing homes; people who have passed.We get their medical needs taken care of; then we will try to find them their forever homes. We work with seniors who are needing a companion and…

Animals
8
New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To save the lives of animals through rescue, rehabilitation and adoption; to promote learning, eliminate animal cruelty and be a leader in advancing the highest standards in animal welfare.

Animals
9
Northern California Sled Dog Rescue

Northern California Sled Dog Rescue (NORSLED) is an all volunteer non-profit group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, fostering and finding new homes for unwanted, abused and abandoned siberian huskies, alaskan malamutes, samoyeds and…

Animals
10
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
11
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
12
Upmc Carlisle

Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches; the most unlike its peers is Top Dog Foundation 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 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. 8 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONTOWERS FOUNDATION: $85,000 · OtherTOWERS FOUNDATIONFRAZER FOUNDATION: $28,727 · OtherFRAZER FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $25,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY+4 more: $30,000 · Other+4 moreCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $365,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUNDCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $266,000 · Arts & CultureCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUS…FUN4SENIORS: $22,200 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $19,000 · Human ServicesInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 · InternationalNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$468,727Philanthropy$365,000Arts & Culture$266,000Recreation & Sports$22,200Human Services$19,000International$15,000Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $365,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC: $266,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOP DOG FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $10,000 over 2y, 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–40%
    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 Jamieson Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jamieson Charitable 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 14 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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