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Jarvis 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k90 grants · $194k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $659k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $751,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $329,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA | $250,000 |
| FDD - FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDFISRAEL DEFENSE FORCE | $193,000 |
| PCD KS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA | $100,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $73,000 |
| CHICAGO CARES | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| ERIKSON INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| JACARANDA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $601k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
131 repeat relationships — 100 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 36 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k 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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND3× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +44%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +33%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH3× · 2023–2025 · $910k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- BZBERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $445k · revenue -13%
- NMNorthwestern Memorial Hospital Foundationone grant, 2022 · $306k
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
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Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
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Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charles M Schwartz Memorial Foundation. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
213 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. 213 of the 275 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds BERNARD ZELL ANSHE EMET DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELNET ↗
- Who funds JACARANDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA ↗
- Who funds PCD KS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICA LA ↗
- Who funds Jewish Sunshine Circle ↗
- Who funds Invest for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GROWING SEASON INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CURE ADDICTION NOW CAN ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Sacks Family Foundation · Kovler Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation · Rochman Charitable Foundation · Karmin Family Charitable Trust · Sam I Am Foundation · Anixter and Silva Family Foundation · The Bluhm Family Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
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 Jarvis 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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Find your warmest path to Jarvis 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.