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Jmj Foundation at a glance

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Jmj 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.

$468k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Religion$1.3MEducation$544kInternational$266kHuman Services$231kCivil Rights$122kHealth$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$84kSocial Science$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $133k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$252k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS CABRINI EDUC FUND$250,000
CATHOLIC CENTRAL$82,667
HOPE FOR HAITI$50,000
ST THOMAS CHURCH$30,000
CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER$25,000
ACTON INSTITUTE$10,000
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
ST BENEDICT INSTITUTE$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $10k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $10k → 11%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $10k → 11%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 38 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
12

Total granted

$2.6M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

37%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $413k 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
InternationalEducationReligionCivil RightsSocial ScienceFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AR
    AMAZON RELIEF
    4× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +31%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN
    4× · 2020–2023 · $86k · revenue +22%
  • HP
    HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +331%

Funded once

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SJ
    ST JOHN PAUL II CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • SI
    SOPHIA INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +115%
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
Ave Maria Communications

Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.

Religion
2
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…

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3
Catholic Answers Inc

Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…

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4
Chesterton Academy of Milw Inc

An education with a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.

Education
5
Paulist Press Inc

The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…

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6
Catholic Human Services Inc

Catholic human services inc. enhances the lives of those we serve by providing hope-filled social, emotional and spiritual support to all people.

Human Services
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Lumen Christi Institute

To make the catholic intellectual tradition a vital part of the culture of universities. to enrich academic communities at the university of chicago, across the nation, and the world with the insights of catholic thought. to dialogue with…

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9
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
10
St Vincent Catholic Charities

The mission of the St. Vincent Catholic Charities is the work of the Catholic Church to share the love of Christ by performing corporal and spiritual works of Mercy.

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11
Vitae Clinic Inc

To provide natural integrated ob-gyn healthcare and fertility care for all women while honoring life.

Health
12
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amazon Relief. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN JUAN DIEGO ACADEMY: $354,500 · OtherSAN JUAN DIEGO ACADEMYCATHOLIC CENTRAL BLDG FD: $330,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CENTRAL BLDG FDST FRANCIS CABRINI EDUC FUND: $250,000 · OtherST FRANCIS CABRINI EDUC FUNDOUR SHEPHERDS OUR FUTURE: $216,667 · OtherOUR SHEPHERDS OUR FUTUREGRAND RAPIDS CATHOLIC CENTRAL: $170,887 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS CATHOLIC CENTRALST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC: $102,200 · Other+39 more: $1,192,987 · Other+39 moreHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $167,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR …AMAZON RELIEF: $99,000 · InternationalAMAZON RE…Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $124,500 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $55,000 · HealthAquinas College: $30,000 · EducationAugustine Institute Inc: $10,000 · EducationSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $21,000 · ReligionHOLY FAMILY RADIO: $15,000 · ReligionARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $30,000 · Human Services
Other$2,617,241International$266,000Civil Rights$124,500Health$55,000Education$40,000Religion$36,000Human Services$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $167,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetActon Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty: $124,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAMAZON RELIEF: $99,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN: $85,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetST ANN'S HOME INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $55,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAquinas College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $21,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOLY FAMILY RADIO: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIGHT TO LIFE OF MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
  • Who funds AMAZON RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST ANN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds Aquinas College ↗
  • Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PREGNANCY CLINICS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY FAMILY RADIO ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗

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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Daniel and Sharon Bow…Raymond James Charita…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Meijer FoundationPeter C & Emajean Coo…The Wege FoundationFrey FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Aetna Foundation IncThe US Charitable Gif…American Endowment Fo…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Daniel and Sharon Bowen Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Frey Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment 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 Jmj Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jmj Foundation. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report 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, 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 54 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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