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Jc Flowers 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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$661k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

International$13MReligion$1.2MCrime & Legal$436kRecreation & Sports$353kEducation$199kHealth$53kArts & Culture$30kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $717k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$201,577
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$660,538
Individual grant recipient$396,700
Individual grant recipient$318,500
ANGLICAN MISSIONARY DIOCESE OF CENTER AND SOUTH OF ANGOLA$308,148
METHODIST CHURCH IN ZIMBABWE HARARE EAST DISTRICT$208,231
Individual grant recipient$201,577
THE LAMBETH TRUST$190,009
KASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION$117,000
ANGLICAN MISSIONARY DIOCESE OF TETE$21,035
EXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC$5,000
HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON$718
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.

Your US giving8% of grant dollars ($1.2M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 92% that went abroad ($14M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOUR CHILDREN: $250 → 13%OPERATION RESTORATION: $2k → 15%WORKING GROUP ON GIRLS: $750 → 17%WORKING GROUP ON GIRLS: $500 → 17%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

NY
MA
NJ
CA
KY
KS
DC
LA

Beyond the US92% of all-years giving ($14M)

7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Zambia$3.9M · 7 grants
Zimbabwe$3.2M · 15 grants
Namibia$2.4M · 7 grants
Angola$2.2M · 8 grants
United Kingdom$1.1M · 6 grants
Switzerland$1.0M · 1 grant
Mozambique$21k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 69% of Jc Flowers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Jc Flowers Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 88% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 16 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
24

Total granted

$13M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+38%

Still filing today

44%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NS
    NETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES INCORPORATED
    5× · 2018–2022 · $369k · revenue +34% · 77% of their budget
  • KC
    KASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $290k · revenue +75%
  • IC
    INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • AP
    AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -53%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $44k · revenue +51%

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
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Harvard Global Research and Support Services Inc

The corporation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. specifically, the corporation has been formed for the…

Education
5
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
6
Internationals Network for Public Schools Inc

The mission of internationals network for public schools ("internationals or "internationals network") is to provide quality education for recently arrived immigrants by growing and sustaining a strong national network of innovative…

7
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Open New York Inc

Open new york is a grassroots non-profit working to solve new york's housing crisis. we advocate for policy changes across the state that will allow for more housing options in every neighborhood. open new york believes in homes for all…

Housing & Shelter
12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aceso Global Inc. 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 backsteadyElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…
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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%27%5–10yr20%36%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,734

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.

05the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $3,919,332 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $2,385,152 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $2,040,005 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $1,899,948 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE LAMBETH TRUST — $1,136,436 · OtherTHE LAMBETH TRUSTTHE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA — $1,000,000 · OtherTHE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIAMETHODIST CHURCH IN ZIMBABWE HARARE EAST DISTRICT — $845,862 · OtherMETHODIST CHURCH IN ZIMBABWE HARARE EAST DISTRICT+16 more — $798,945 · Other+16 moreNETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES INCORPORATED — $369,250 · Crime & LegalEXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC — $41,500 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $20,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $260 · Crime & LegalKASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC — $289,844 · Recreation & SportsAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $60,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $96,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $44,000 · Education+3 more — $5,288 · EducationTHE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $8,400 · HealthACESO GLOBAL INC — $6,000 · HealthFORT GREENE STRATEGIC NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $1,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION RESTORATION — $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE WORKING GROUP ON GIRLS INC — $1,250 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC — $250 · Human Services
Other$14,025,680Crime & Legal$431,010Recreation & Sports$352,844Education$195,788Arts & Culture$30,000Health$14,400Community Improvement$6,000Human Services$3,500

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 budgetNETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES INCORPORATED — $369,250 over 5y, 77% of budgetKASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC — $289,844 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $96,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC — $52,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC — $50,218 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $44,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC — $41,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACESO GLOBAL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFORT GREENE STRATEGIC NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC — $1,188 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NETWORK SUPPORT SERVICES INCORPORATED
  • Who funds KASPAROV CHESS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds HARLEM EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FUND INC
  • Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC
  • Who funds THE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC
  • Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC
  • Who funds ACESO GLOBAL INC
  • Who funds FORT GREENE STRATEGIC NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC
  • Who funds GLOBAL BALLERS INCORPORATED
  • Who funds OPERATION RESTORATION
  • Who funds THE WORKING GROUP ON GIRLS INC
  • Who funds HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARLEM INC

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Jc Flowers 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Jc Flowers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jc Flowers 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.

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 45 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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