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Jasons Legacy

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.

$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$57k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$12,600
THE WOMEN'S BAKERY$5,000
DAYS FOR GIRLS INTERNATIONAL$5,000
TEN BY THREE$5,000
VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY$4,000
ANNIE'S HOPE$3,000
FORAI INC$3,000
SISTER THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$3,000
ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$1,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$350
CLERGY DISCRETIONARY FUND$150
ROOM AT THE INN$100
02The need
02

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FORAI INC: $3k → 11%TEN BY THREE: $5k → 21%DAYS FOR GIRLS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 11%SISTER THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3k → 16%ANNIE'S HOPE: $3k → 11%ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 21%ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $13k → 11%THE WOMEN'S BAKERY: $5k → 11%VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY: $4k → 11%CLERGY DISCRETIONARY FUND: $150 → 11%ROOM AT THE INN: $100 → 11%OPERATION FOOD SEARCH: $350 → 11%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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $12,600 · OtherST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCHVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $4,000 · OtherVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUISSISTER THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherSISTER THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHANNIE'S HOPE: $3,000 · OtherANNIE'S HOPEST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $250 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $5,000 · InternationalTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INCDays For Girls International: $5,000 · InternationalDays For Girls InternationalTen By Three: $5,000 · InternationalTen By ThreeFORAI INC: $3,000 · EducationOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $350 · Food & Nutrition
Other$23,850International$15,000Education$3,000Food & Nutrition$350

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDays For Girls International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTen By Three: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORAI INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoom at the Inn: $100 over 1y, 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jasons Legacy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jasons Legacy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

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

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