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Jenkins Family Charitable Institute at a glance

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Jenkins Family Charitable Institute

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$350kEducation$88kRecreation & Sports$72kHuman Services$55kHealth$54kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kReligion$15kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Napa Communities Firewise Foundation$20,000
Kid Save$20,000
KC Heart Rhythm Research Foundation$12,000
University of San Deigo CAI$10,000
Multiple Myloma Research Foundation$10,000
St George's Episcopal Church$10,000
American University$10,000
Mayo Clinic$5,000
Planned Parenthood of Southwest & Central FL$5,000
KU Endowment$5,000
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church$5,000
Special Olympics co TD Bank$2,500
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy$1,500
02The need
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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 (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%The Brannan Center: $2k → 9%Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy: $2k → 14%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

MN
NY
NJ
CT
CA
UT
KS
DC
LA
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$166k · 4 repeat orgs$490k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$166k
$421k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+77%

Still filing today

75%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • NA
    NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $69k · revenue +38%
  • KI
    KIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue -40%
  • KH
    KC Heart Rhythm Research Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $22k

Funded once

  • GH
    GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue +77%
  • KE
    KU Endowment - Mary Lee Roby Jenkins Endowed Scholarship
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MS
    MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +88%
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
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
6
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
12
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Napa Communities Firewise Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Brannan Center. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES: $349,522 · InternationalGLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIESKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $55,000 · InternationalKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INCKU Endowment - Mary Lee Roby Jenkins Endowed Scholarship: $50,000 · OtherKU Endowment - Mary…KC Heart Rhythm Research Foundation: $22,000 · OtherKC Heart Rhythm Res…UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN D…ST GEORGE EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherST GEORGE EPISCOPAL…SAVE THE FAMILY FARMS: $5,000 · OtherKU Endowment: $5,000 · OtherOur Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $5,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $69,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL AB…THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,400 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationTHE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesBRANNAN CENTER: $1,500 · Human Services
International$404,522Other$112,000Recreation & Sports$69,000Health$30,000Education$22,400Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES: $349,522 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $69,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDSAVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANNAN CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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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 Jenkins Family Charitable Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jenkins Family Charitable Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jenkins Family Charitable Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Jenkins Family Charitable Institute 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 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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