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Jasper Ridge Charitable Fund

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$26M
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Jasper Ridge Charitable Fund’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Jasper Ridge Charitable Fund named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $25M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’17
10
’18
9
’19
17
’20
7
’21
9
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2023.

Philanthropy$101MEducation$46MHealth$7.2MCrime & Legal$3.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MHuman Services$758kInternational$500kYouth Development$95kOther$0
02FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $25,380,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,273,863 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $893,863 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 · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
  • $250k+1 grant · $25M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Oregon Foundation$25,000,000
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$110,000
Women for Women International$90,000
The Catalog for Giving$75,000
Village Enterprise Fund Inc$50,000
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$19,000
HIgher Achievement Program Inc$10,000
Warfighter Outfitters Inc$10,000
Guardian Group$8,000
Miraclefeet$8,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $738k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $738k → 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

NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
NC
DC
AL
FL
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.

3%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 14 repeat orgs$37M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2019, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$1.0M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+535%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthCrime & LegalCivil RightsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • VE
    VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND
    6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +502%
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $200k · revenue +41%
  • CC
    CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • IMPACT JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3.5M · revenue +110% · 34% of their budget
  • CF
    Center for Adv Study in Behavioral Sci Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • NH
    NOORA HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +535%
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
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
3
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
5
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
6
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Orcid Inc

Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Warfighter Outfitters. 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

32 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.

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)
30/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $94,890,587 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+2 more: $1,050,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $25,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $20,000,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FO…+4 more: $564,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,177,306 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementIMPACT JUSTICE: $3,500,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $37,000 · Civil RightsBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $738,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $300,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 · InternationalLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $104,000 · HealthMIRACLEFEET: $38,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $21,000 · HealthNOORA HEALTH: $7,000 · HealthSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $95,000 · OtherGUARDIAN GROUP: $57,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $16,000 · OtherImpactMatters Inc: $26,000 · OtherWARFIGHTER OUTFITTERS: $20,000 · OtherHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · OtherTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherEqualize Health Formerly D-Rev: $20,000 · OtherBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $17,000 · Other+2 more: $13,000 · Other
Philanthropy$95,940,587Education$52,564,000Community Improvement$6,427,306Civil Rights$3,537,000Human Services$738,000International$500,000Health$170,000Other$299,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $94,890,587 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $25,000,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $20,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,177,306 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT JUSTICE: $3,500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $738,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $300,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $219,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $104,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $95,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION: $65,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGUARDIAN GROUP: $57,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $38,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImpactMatters Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEqualize Health Formerly D-Rev: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWARFIGHTER OUTFITTERS: $20,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetBEHAVIORAL IDEAS LAB INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOORA HEALTH: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR OUTDOORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Gates FoundationThe William & Flora H…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mulago FoundationSkoll FundNational Philanthropi…ImpactassetsincThe David and Lucile …The Ford FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Gates FoundationWA20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mulago Foundation · Skoll Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Oregon Community Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Outdoors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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

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How do I get to Jasper Ridge Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Jasper Ridge Charitable Fund 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 32 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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