Illinois · Private foundation
Jbs 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.
- $412k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 57
- Grants FY2024
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 55
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Jbs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 55 | $399k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $376k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $341k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $479k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $375k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $354k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $334k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $295k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Figueroa Wu Family Foundation | $215,260 | 5 | 16% |
| Lake County Crisis Center | $93,100 | 8 | 0% |
| North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic | $58,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Northwestern University | $39,450 | 7 | 0% |
| Soo Eagles Booster Club Inc | $25,550 | 5 | 9% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $22,320 | 5 | 0% |
| New Covenant Community Development Corporation | $22,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc | $21,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Miracles in Progress | $20,200 | 6 | 33% |
| Hias Inc | $19,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 72 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jbs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Kovler Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Leon and Sharon Kaufman Foundation · The Bill Bass Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jbs Foundation
- How much does Jbs Foundation give?
- Jbs Foundation reported 57 grants totaling $411,734 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jbs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (34%), Human Services (14%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Jbs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Figueroa Wu Family Foundation ($215k), Lake County Crisis Center ($93k), North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic ($58k).
- Does Jbs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jbs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jbs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Circle of Service Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Jbs Foundation based?
- Jbs Foundation is based in IL.
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