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Jams 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.

$899k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$208k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$3.7MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$320kInternational$214kYouth Development$83kPublic Benefit$65kHousing & Shelter$62kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $355k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $516k
$14,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEINSTEIN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM$208,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$75,000
RAY COROLLARY INITIATIVE$62,500
NATIONAL ASSOC FOR COMMUNTIY MEDIATION$60,000
COMMUNITY BOARD PROGRAM$60,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION$40,000
NATIONAL ASSOC FOR COMMUNTIY MEDIATION$40,000
NATIONAL ASSOC FOR COMMUNTIY MEDIATION$37,500
COMMON JUSTICE$25,000
NATIONAL ASSOC FOR COMMUNTIY MEDIATION$22,500
NATIONAL ASSOC FOR COMMUNTIY MEDIATION$22,500
NATIONAL ASSOC FOR COMMUNTIY MEDIATION$21,000
NATIONAL ASSOC FOR COMMUNTIY MEDIATION$14,000
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 (FY17–24, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $10k → 11%New York Peace Institute: $100k → 17%RESOLUTION SYSTEMS INSTITUTE: $22k → 14%New York Peace Institute: $75k → 17%New York Peace Institute: $45k → 17%NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%RESOLUTION SYSTEMS INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $45k → 14%BRAVER ANGELS: $25k → 17%RESOLUTION SYSTEMS INSTITUTE: $4k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 26 repeat orgs$703k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
16

Total granted

$5.3M
$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+30%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • NA
    National Association For Community Mediation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +169% · 88% of their budget
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +36%
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • VA
    VARIOUS AFGHAN JUDGES
    one grant, 2023 · $147k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue +30%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF WORLD AFFAIRS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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
Center for Conflict Resolution

Conflict resolution and violence prevention assistance to at-risk populations.

Health
2
Center for Conflict Resolution

To empower communities, organizations and individuals to handle disputes constructively by developing and designing appropriate and creative solutions that address all interests, needs, and values.

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3
International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Inc

Cprs mission is to harness the insights and experiences of its members to prevent and resolve business disputes.we do this by:(see schedule o)- convening a community of members to generate innovative and best practice resources to prevent…

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4
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
5
Intl Academy of Collaborative Professionals

IACPs mission is to unite and empower a global network of professionals who are dedicated to transforming conflict resolution using the principles of Collaborative Practice.

Crime & Legal
6
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
7
Community Mediation Inc

Community mediation helps people, organizations, and communities transform conflict into constructive solutions through mediation, facilitation, and training.

Crime & Legal
8
International Center On Nonviolent Conflict
Philanthropy
9
Conflict Resolution Center St Louis City

Conflict Resolution Center St. Louis empowers people to resolve conflict through accessible mediation, coaching, and education.

Human Services
10
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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11
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
12
Advocates for Family Peace

To improve lives by ending domestic violence.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mediators Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Restorative Youth Justice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsChild and Family ServicesGovernment Accountability R…Education Equity LeadershipFallen First Responder Supp…Public University Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%54%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEINSTEIN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM — $1,229,881 · OtherWEINSTEIN FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMVARIOUS AFGHAN JUDGES — $146,500 · OtherVARIOUS AFGHAN JUDGES+19 more — $581,000 · Other+19 moreNational Association For Community Mediation — $1,457,800 · Human ServicesNational Association For Community…NEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC — $245,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC+4 more — $110,964 · Human Services+4 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $950,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUN…PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION — $65,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $55,000 · Education+1 more — $25,000 · EducationASSOCIATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — $168,750 · Crime & LegalASSOCIATION…Ray Corollary Initiative — $62,500 · Crime & LegalRay Corolla…COMMUNITY BOARD PROGRAM — $60,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY B…KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $60,000 · Crime & LegalKIDS FIRST …THE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC — $60,000 · Crime & LegalTHE MEDIATI…CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — $55,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR …Direction Service — $45,000 · Crime & LegalDirection S…NASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CTR — $40,000 · Crime & LegalNASHVILLE C…WESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $15,000 · Crime & LegalLittle Friends for Peace Inc — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCHOOLTALK INC — $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentSunbird Initiative — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING — $25,000 · InternationalPARTNERSGLOBAL — $20,000 · InternationalCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $40,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,957,381Human Services$1,813,764Education$1,405,000Crime & Legal$591,250Youth Development$123,000International$70,000Philanthropy$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNational Association For Community Mediation — $1,457,800 over 8y, 88% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $950,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PEACE INSTITUTE INC — $245,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — $168,750 over 8y, 18% of budgetCREATIVE RESPONSE TO CONFLICT INC — $65,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION — $65,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRay Corollary Initiative — $62,500 over 1y, 49% of budgetOur Family Services Inc — $62,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLittle Friends for Peace Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY BOARD PROGRAM — $60,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER — $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE MEDIATION CENTER OF COASTAL EMPIRE INC — $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION — $55,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDirection Service — $45,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CTR — $40,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOLTALK INC — $38,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetResolution Systems Institute — $30,964 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE MOSAIC PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSunbird Initiative — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR PEACEBUILDING — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBraver AngelsInc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWESTERN JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPARTNERSGLOBAL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUSTICE INNOVATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Arbitration …The Chicago Community…The William & Flora H…Greater Washington Co…ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
American Arbitration Association - Int'L Centre for Dispute Resolution Fndn IncNY22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Arbitration Association - Int'L Centre for Dispute Resolution Fndn Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Jams 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lighthouse Academies Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report 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

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.

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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines