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Jfg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

67% of Jfg Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Wayne County Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
3
’18
4
’19
2
’20
4
’21
4
’22
4
’23
1
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$43kPhilanthropy$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kHealth$19kEnvironment$15kEducation$10kEmployment$4kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$64k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$12,000
WVIA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE KELLEY LALLEY FUND: $380 → 11%DELAWARE HIGHLANDS: $2k → 9%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $500 → 11%SETTLERS CARES FOUNDATION: $22k → 12%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $3k → 12%DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 13%MARLEYS MISSION: $6k → 13%WVIA: $5k → 15%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $7k → 14%NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%PETERS VALLEY: $729 → 6%WESTERN ALBEMARLE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: $200 → 8%UNITED WAY: $440 → 9%HARMONY IN THE WOODS: $2k → 9%LAKE REGION COMMUNITY DOCK FOUNDATION: $170 → 12%PRLA HARP: $5k → 12%DELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 13%MARLEYS MISSION: $5k → 13%AMERICA 250PA: $500 → 15%NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $3k → 14%CJR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY: $25k → 13%MARLEYS MISSION: $3k → 13%DELAWARE HIGHLANDS: $1k → 9%WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 13%MARLEYS MISSION: $1k → 13%DELAWARE HIGHLANDS: $1k → 9%WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 13%MARLEYS MISSION: $500 → 13%WALLENPAUPACK YOUTH: $1k → 9%HUMAN RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%MARLEY'S MISSION: $500 → 13%DELAWARE HIGHLANDS: $630 → 9%WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%CJR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $540 → 9%HUMAN RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%CJR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%HUMAN RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $775 → 13%HUMAN RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $650 → 13%THE LACAWAC SANCTUARY: $4k → 13%THE LACAWAC SANCTUARY: $1k → 13%LEDGEDALE FIRE COMPANY: $1k → 13%THE LACAWAC SANCTUARY: $1k → 13%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.
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47k · 7 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$47k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+18%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
    2× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +133%
  • LS
    LACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +99%
  • CM
    CJR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $2k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SC
    SETTLERS CARES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +18%
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
Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Inc

See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…

Arts & Culture
2
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
3
Lancaster County Conservancy

The mission of the lancaster county conservancy is "providing wild and forested lands and clean waterways for our community forever". the charitable purposes of the lancaster county conservancy include preservation of natural lands,…

Environment
4
Western Pennsylvania Foundation for the Arts
Arts & Culture
5
The Henderson-Wessendorff Foundation
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6
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
7
Northern Plains Heritage Foundation
Arts & Culture
8
Northern Virginia Health Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association

Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…

Animals
10
Pnc Foundation
—
11
Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Foundation

Mission/purpose: the philadelphia convention and visitors bureau foundation ("foundation") was established in 2002 to conduct public, charitable, and educational activities and to attract additional support for those activities from…

Recreation & Sports
12
The Lichtenstein Family Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Highlands Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is The Nelson Family Foundation Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $4,630 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHARMONY IN THE WOODS: $1,500 · Other+8 more: $4,419 · Other+8 moreWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 · PhilanthropyWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY…CJR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2,340 · PhilanthropyCJR MEMORIAL FOUNDATIO…THE NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,019 · PhilanthropyMARLEY'S MISSION INC: $15,565 · HealthMARLEY'S MISSION…HUMAN RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $4,280 · HealthHUMAN RESOURCES …American Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · HealthAmerican Heart A…SETTLERS CARES FOUNDATION: $21,603 · Public Safety & DisasterSETTLERS CARES F…NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $10,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TR…NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHEASTER…LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $3,920 · EnvironmentPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $500 · Community Improvement
Other$40,549Philanthropy$29,859Health$22,345Public Safety & Disaster$21,603Arts & Culture$15,500Education$10,000Environment$9,920Community Improvement$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 budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $26,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSETTLERS CARES FOUNDATION: $21,603 over 1y, 22% of budgetMARLEY'S MISSION INC: $15,565 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLACAWAC SANCTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $4,280 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDELAWARE HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY: $3,920 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCJR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2,340 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHE NELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,019 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $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.

Hickory Hill Foundati…The Hawk Family Found…The Honesdale Nationa…Abram M and Mabel B S…Scranton Area Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hickory Hill FoundationPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hickory Hill Foundation · The Hawk Family Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank Foundation · Abram M and Mabel B Skier Foundation Inc · Scranton Area Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Jfg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jfg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    0get no government money at all
    5report 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 Jfg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jfg 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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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