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JEC 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Human Rights Watch | $35,000 |
| League to Save Lake Tahoe | $30,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity | $30,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $30,000 |
| Puppies Behind Bars | $25,000 |
| Monument Crisis Center | $25,000 |
| Marin Agricultural Land Trust | $20,000 |
| The Basic Fund | $20,000 |
| KQED | $20,000 |
| Stinson Beach Volunteer Firefighter | $20,000 |
| Medshare | $20,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $20,000 |
| Project Healing Waters | $20,000 |
| Food Forward | $20,000 |
| Marine Mammal Center | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $313k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% 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.
45 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +20%- RTRebuilding Together East Bay Network3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +350%
- PBPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- OEOakland Elizabeth Housegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +54%
- BRBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATREgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +87%
- BBaykeepersone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 57 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
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together East Bay Network ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds Baykeeper ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
- Who funds GREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Bay ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Next Step Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS 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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Patagoniaorg · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 JEC 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
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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