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Jetblue Grants 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| NEW HACKNEY EDUCATION BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP (INSPIRE) LONDON UK | $41,080 |
| MARIPOSA DR FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| ALEXANDRIA FAIRFAX ALUMNI CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE | $25,000 |
| AEROSTAR AVION INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| SCIENCE JOURNAL FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BROWARD COUNTY | $10,000 |
| AEROBILITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
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 Jetblue Grants 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.
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.
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 +65% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k 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
- TLTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2018–2022 · $105k · revenue +21%
- MDMariposa DR Foundation3× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +95%
- MOMUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MAYAGUEZone grant, 2018 · $152k
- CUCLARKSON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -10%
- NYNEW YORK EDGE- JFKLGAone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.
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.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
Girls global academy public charter school (gga) was incorporated in the district of columbia in june 2019 and opened its doors in august 2020 fostering pathways to lead and learn. as an all-girls public charter high school, gga ignites…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
the space science institute is shaping our future by enabling scientists to advance our understanding of earth and the universe; increasing science and technology literacy for people of all ages and backgrounds; and inspiring youth to…
The purpose of the school is to promote, advance and sponsor charitable and educational activities.
Foxcroft's mission is to help every girl explore her unique voice and to develop the skills, confidence, and courage to share it with the world with emphasis on Our Values of Respect, Integrity, Kindness, Service.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
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,…
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc. 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 29 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 — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 61 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 THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Mariposa DR Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Project Scientist Inc ↗
- Who funds THE OLIVER SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Greater NY Inc ↗
- Who funds AVIATION YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AEROSTAR AVION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEE A ARCHER JR RED TAIL YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds INTER AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds ECOEXPLORATORIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO CREEK ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jetblue Grants 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.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Museum of Discovery and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% 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.
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