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Jerome Jacobson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$541k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Civil Rights$2.4MHealth$1.7MFood & Nutrition$503kInternational$406kArts & Culture$375kPublic Benefit$125kEducation$61kReligion$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$282k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANDWITHUS$200,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$150,000
FAIR ELECTION CENTER$100,000
MINNESOTA CHAPTER FOR MS$50,000
GREENWICH UNITED WAY$20,000
MARIN ALANO CLUB$15,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$6,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MINNESOTA CHAPTER FOR MS: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNER SCHOOL: $13k → 22%CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR: $6k → 8%STANDWITHUS: $200k → 14%IONA HOUSE: $503k → 14%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $150k → 11%KELLOGG EYE CENTER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500k → 14%GREENWICH UNITED WAY: $20k → 9%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $6k → 21%THE PBS FOUNDATION: $75k → 7%BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%MINNESOTA CHAPTER FOR MS: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNER SCHOOL: $13k → 22%MARIN ALANO CLUB: $15k → 8%STANDWITHUS: $200k → 14%ACLU: $500k → 14%KELLOGG EYE CENTER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $500k → 14%THE PBS FOUNDATION: $75k → 7%BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%MINNESOTA CHAPTER FOR MS: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY PARTNER SCHOOL: $12k → 22%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $500k → 14%KELLOGG EYE CENTER: $50k → 14%THE PBS FOUNDATION: $75k → 7%BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%COMMUNITY PARTNER SCHOOL: $12k → 22%ACLU: $500k → 14%KELLOGG EYE CENTER: $50k → 14%THE PBS FOUNDATION: $75k → 7%BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%COMMUNITY PARTNER SCHOOL: $12k → 22%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $500k → 14%THE PBS FOUNDATION: $75k → 7%BRIGHT FOCUS FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%PENN HILLEL: $18k → 22%ACLU: $50k → 14%MINNESOTA CHAPTER FOR MS: $50k → 8%ACLU: $50k → 14%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $50k → 14%ACLU: $50k → 14%ACLU: $50k → 14%ACLU: $50k → 14%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25k → 14%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25k → 14%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25k → 14%FAIR ELECTION CENTER: $100k → 14%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25k → 14%FAIR ELECTION CENTER: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Jerome Jacobson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Jerome Jacobson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 10 repeat orgs$718k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$4.9M
$527k

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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
HealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyReligionCivil RightsOther

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

  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +1%
  • PBS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $375k · revenue ×12
  • BF
    BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $375k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • IH
    IONA HOUSE
    one grant, 2017 · $503k
  • PH
    PENN HILLEL
    one grant, 2023 · $18k
  • CK
    CONGREGATION KOL SHOFAR
    one grant, 2019 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
2
Jupiter Medical Center Inc

The mission of jupiter medical center is to deliver excellent and compassionate healthcare advancing the well-being of the people we serve, regardless of their ability to pay. certain services are provided at a loss or at no payment…

Health
3
Jupiter Medical Center Physicians Group Inc

JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…

Health
4
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
5
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
9
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc

The middle east media research institute (memri) explores the middle east through its media, providing timely translations from arabic, farsi, urdu, pashtu, and turkish media and publishing original analysis of political, ideological,…

International
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pbs Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marin Alano Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACLU — $1,250,000 · OtherACLUANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,150,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEKELLOGG EYE CENTER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $1,000,000 · OtherKELLOGG EYE CENTER UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANIONA HOUSE — $502,795 · OtherIONA HOUSE+6 more — $297,300 · Other+6 moreISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $400,000 · InternationalBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $375,000 · HealthMarin Alano Club — $15,000 · HealthPBS FOUNDATION — $375,000 · Arts & CultureJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyFair Elections Center — $125,000 · Civil RightsSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $6,000 · Religion
Other$4,200,095International$400,000Health$390,000Arts & Culture$375,000Philanthropy$150,000Civil Rights$125,000Religion$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE — $400,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFair Elections Center — $125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMarin Alano Club — $15,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc
  • Who funds Fair Elections Center
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC
  • Who funds Marin Alano Club
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jerome Jacobson 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jerome Jacobson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jerome Jacobson 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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