· Private foundation
Jenbek 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONORSCHOOSE | $911 |
| HELPING HANDS FOOD PANTRY | $589 |
| COR | $550 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $500 |
| PROPUBLICA | $500 |
| SECOND HELPINGS | $500 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $500 |
| PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $500 |
| OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $500 |
| TINWORKS ART | $500 |
| FLORIDA PRESS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION | $500 |
| WUSF PUBLIC MEDIA | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $500 |
| ROCK RIVER VALLEY FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- RWROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +14%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +39%- RRROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HMHIGH MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
- POPAWS OF WAR INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +73%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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,…
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Literacy Council and the most unlike its peers is A Mothers Love. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 92 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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENSPACE ↗
- Who funds A MOTHERS LOVE ↗
- Who funds ART PAPERS INC ↗
- Who funds BARN SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT PISGAH ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CONTEMPORY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
- Who funds Nikolas Ritschel Foundation ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MISS CARLY'S INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The American Stage Company 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: Tim & Lauren Schrager Family Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Jenbek 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
- Mount Pisgah Arboretum — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% 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.