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Jensen Rasmussen 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.

$39k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$630k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Jensen Rasmussen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$39k29%
FY20235$29k60%
FY202210$39k30%
FY20216$25k67%
FY20206$25k83%
FY20194$16k75%
FY20185$19k60%
FY20176$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$51kEnvironment$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kCivil Rights$21kInternational$21kHealth$14kYouth Development$13kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
World Central Kitchen Inc$21,00020%
Food Bank of El Dorado County$17,60030%
Sierra Club Foundation$15,50020%
Utah Food Bank$8,60020%
Capital Roots Inc$8,00020%
Direct Relief$8,00010%
Lodi-Tokay Rotary Club$7,50087%
The Pad Project$5,00010%
Water for People$5,00010%
Central City Concern$5,00010%
Show all 18 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jensen Rasmussen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of El Dorado County: $17,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Food Bank: $8,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Roots Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDirect Relief: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLodi-Tokay Rotary Club: $7,500 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetThe Pad Project: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWater for People: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Concern: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Tree Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salt Lake Tribune Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho Foodbank Warehouse: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Grand Canyon Trust Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanine Companions for Independence Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Jensen Rasmussen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jensen Rasmussen 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.

About Jensen Rasmussen Foundation

How much does Jensen Rasmussen Foundation give?
Jensen Rasmussen Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $39,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jensen Rasmussen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Environment (17%), Public Safety & Disaster (13%).
Who are Jensen Rasmussen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: World Central Kitchen Inc ($21k), Food Bank of El Dorado County ($18k), Sierra Club Foundation ($16k).
Does Jensen Rasmussen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jensen Rasmussen 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 Jensen Rasmussen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Jensen Rasmussen Foundation based?
Jensen Rasmussen Foundation is based in CA.

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 29 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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