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Jga Foundation at a glance

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Jga Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Community Improvement$112kHealth$95kArts & Culture$75kEducation$50kAnimals$26kHuman Services$18k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BABSON COLLEGE$20,000
FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE AND EAR INC$12,500
SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$10,000
FRIENDS OF HOPELANDS AND RYE PATCH$8,000
GREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS$5,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$5,000
THE TAFT SCHOOL$1,890
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BABSON COLLEGE: $20k → 7%FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE AND EAR INC: $13k → 16%SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $10k → 17%THE TAFT SCHOOL: $6k → 9%STOCKBRIDGE MEETING HOUSE SOCIETY INC: $40k → 9%BABSON COLLEGE: $20k → 7%FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE AND EAR INC: $13k → 16%FRIENDS OF HOPELANDS AND RYE PATCH: $8k → 17%THE TAFT SCHOOL: $2k → 9%STOCKBRIDGE MEETING HOUSE SOCIETY INC: $35k → 9%BABSON COLLEGE: $20k → 7%FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE AND EAR INC: $13k → 16%FRIENDS OF HOPELANDS AND RYE PATCH: $8k → 17%THE TAFT SCHOOL: $2k → 9%STOCKBRIDGE MEETING HOUSE SOCIETYINC: $18k → 9%BABSON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE AND EAR INC: $13k → 16%SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $6k → 17%BABSON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%FOUNDATION OF THE MEEI INC: $13k → 16%FRIENDS OF HOPELANDS AND RYE PATCH: $6k → 17%BABSON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%FOUNDATION OF MASS EYE AND EAR INC: $13k → 16%SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $5k → 17%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $20k → 7%SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $5k → 17%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $5k → 7%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$358k · 8 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$358k
$18k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman 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

  • BABSON COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +28%
  • GO
    GREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +77%
  • TT
    THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • SM
    STOCKBRIDGE MEETING HOUSE SOCIETYINC
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
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
Bethany College Trust

To hold in trust, endowments exclusively for the benefit of bethany college in accordance with the terms and conditions specified by the donors.

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2
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Belmont Abbey College Inc

The mission of belmont abbey college is to educate students in the liberal arts and sciences so that in all things, god may be glorified. in this endeavor, we are guided by the catholic intellectual tradition and the benedictine spirit of…

Education
5
Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School

Eaglebrook is a school for boys in the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. in a warm, caring, structured atmosphere, boys learn more than they ever thought possible, discover inner resources, develop self-confidence, and have fun along the way.…

Education
6
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
9
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
10
Breck School

We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.

Education
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Great Oak Equine Assisted Programs. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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)
6/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BABSON COLLEGE: $90,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEWellesley College: $40,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $9,580 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $75,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF THE MASS…STOCKBRIDGE MEETING HOUSE SOCIETY INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSTOCKBRIDGE MEETING HO…FRIENDS OF HOPELANDS AND RYE PATCH INC: $22,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF …STOCKBRIDGE MEETING HOUSE SOCIETYINC: $17,500 · OtherSTOCKBRIDGE…SPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $26,000 · AnimalsGREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS: $20,000 · Human Services
Education$139,580Health$75,000Arts & Culture$75,000Other$39,500Animals$26,000Human Services$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA ALBRECHT CENTER FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $26,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOPELANDS AND RYE PATCH INC: $22,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetGREAT OAK EQUINE ASSISTED PROGRAMS: $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $9,580 over 3y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–5%
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.

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 9 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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