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Jensen Rasmussen Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$51kEnvironment$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kCivil Rights$21kInternational$21kHealth$14kYouth Development$13kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$630k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$8,000
DIRECT RELIEF$8,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$8,000
SACRAMENTO TREE FOUNDATION$5,000
FOOD BANK OF EL DORADO COUNTY$5,000
ACLU$4,000
LODI-TOKAY ROTARY CLUB$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–17, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 9%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

ID
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
TX
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 12 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 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

12
15

Total granted

$133k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +36%
  • FB
    Food Bank of El Dorado County
    3× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue -12%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue -70%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Pad Project
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -26%
  • SB
    SUSAN B KOMEN FOR THE CURE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • WF
    WATER FOR PEOPLEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +59%
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
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
2
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
3
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
4
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
6
Wedontwaste Inc

We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.

Food & Nutrition
7
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
8
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of El Dorado County; the most unlike its peers is Lodi-Tokay Rotary Club. 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

18 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. 18 of the 29 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG SISTERS BIG BROTHERS OF THE CAP: $13,000 · OtherBIG SISTERS BIG BROTHERS OF THE CAPLAWYER COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS: $12,000 · OtherLAWYER COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTSNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $9,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCILACLU: $9,000 · OtherACLUUTAH FOOD BANK: $8,600 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKALAMEDA CITY FOOD BANK: $8,600 · OtherALAMEDA CITY FOOD BANKLODI-TOKAY ROTARY CLUB: $7,500 · OtherLODI-TOKAY ROTARY CLUBSUSAN B KOMEN FOR THE CURE: $5,000 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANK: $4,600 · OtherVESPER MEADOWS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM: $4,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherINNOCENCE PROJECT: $4,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $3,500 · Other+2 more: $1,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $21,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN …DIRECT RELIEF: $8,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFThe Pad Project: $5,000 · InternationalThe Pad ProjectWATER FOR PEOPLE: $5,000 · InternationalWATER FOR PEOPLESIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,500 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDA…CAPITAL ROOTS INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentCAPITAL ROOTS INCSacramento Tree Foundation: $5,000 · EnvironmentSacramento Tree Fo…THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON T…Food Bank of El Dorado County: $17,600 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of…IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $4,000 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOODBA…Central City Concern: $5,000 · HealthTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $500 · Human ServicesEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$93,800International$39,000Environment$32,000Food & Nutrition$21,600Health$5,000Arts & Culture$4,000Human Services$500Recreation & Sports$500

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

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
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.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jensen Rasmussen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jensen Rasmussen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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, 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

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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.

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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