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JLGS Foundation Corp at a glance

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JLGS Foundation Corp

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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$119k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$503kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kInternational$6kScience & Tech$2kHealth$2kHousing & Shelter$1kEnvironment$759Animals$710Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
$775
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US Charitable Gift Trust Donor Services$119,000
Tzu Chi Mid-Atlantic Region$2,250
Reps for Responders Inc$1,500
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation$1,005
Doctors Without Borders$775
World Wildlife Fund$456
American Cancer Society$250
Best Friends Animal Society$210
Individual grant recipient$96
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%US Charitable Gift Trust Donor Services: $108k → 16%Reps for Responders Inc: $2k → 14%Community Foundation of Orange and Sullivan: $1k → 14%UNICEF USA: $1k → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $456 → 14%Best Friends Animal Society: $500 → 9%US Charitable Gift Trust: $200k → 16%American Nuclear Society: $2k → 7%The Michael LaViola Foundation: $1k → 7%Tzu Chi Mid-Atlantic Region: $2k → 16%National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: $1k → 6%REPS for Responders: $1k → 14%UNICFF USA: $314 → 17%Worl Wildlife Fund: $200 → 14%Best Friends Animal Society: $210 → 9%US Charitable Gift Trust Donor Services: $119k → 16%National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: $1k → 6%Reps for Responders Inc: $1k → 14%Doctors Without Borders: $775 → 17%World Wildlife Fund: $103 → 14%US Charitable Gift Trust: $75k → 16%REPS for responders: $1k → 14%Doctors wo Borders: $250 → 17%International Medical Corps: $1k → 14%Chelsea Hook & Ladder Co #2: $210 → 14%Tzu Chi Mid Atlantic Region: $250 → 17%Nyack Fire Patrol: $100 → 14%Rockland Community: $1k → 17%Piermont Fire Department: $96 → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
UT
MD
DC
OK
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$237k · 6 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$237k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEnvironmentScience & TechAnimalsOther
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

  • UC
    US Charitable Gift Trust Donor Services
    2× · 2024–2025 · $227k
  • RF
    REPS FOR RESPONDERS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $5k
  • TC
    Tzu Chi Mid-Atlantic Region
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k

Funded once

  • AN
    AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • IM
    International Medical Corps
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +1%
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
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
3
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
4
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
5
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
7
American Society for Nutrition Inc

The american society for nutrition, inc. (asn) was established to advance health around the world through evidence based nutrition. this is accomplished through innovative programs and services designed to advance knowledge, create and…

Food & Nutrition
8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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11
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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12
American National Standards Institute

To enhance both the global competitiveness of u.s. business and the u.s. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Michael F Laviola Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 22 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)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $275,000 · PhilanthropyTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUS Charitable Gift Trust Donor Services: $226,500 · OtherUS Charitable Gift Trust Donor Services+12 more: $9,030 · OtherREPS FOR RESPONDERS INC: $4,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 · HealthAMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $2,000 · Science & TechUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $775 · InternationalWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $759 · EnvironmentBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $710 · Animals
Philanthropy$276,000Other$235,530Health$4,750Science & Tech$2,000International$1,775Environment$759Animals$710

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 budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $275,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREPS FOR RESPONDERS INC: $4,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $2,010 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $759 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 22 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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