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Jms Foundation Inc

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.

$33k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$786kPhilanthropy$130kEducation$117kHealth$70kHousing & Shelter$66kCivil Rights$59kReligion$29kCommunity Improvement$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,044
Median grant
8
States reached
$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL OPTIONS$5,150
THE PUTNEY SCHOOL$5,000
JAMES BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL LIABRARY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL$2,575
BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY$2,021
CAMPESINOS$1,500
ITEP$1,044
LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE$1,033
CONNECTICUT MENTAL HEALTH CENTER FO$1,030
CT MIRROR$1,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$1,000
CIRCLECAMPS$525
CONNECTICUT MENTAL HEALTH CENTER FO$500
EDITH B JACKSON CHILD CARE PROGRAM$500
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $434k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FORGOTTEN SOLDIER PROGRAM: $250 → 6%INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $25k → 14%MIAMI DIAPER BANK: $268 → 15%CONNECTICUT PARENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 → 9%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $5k → 9%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $38k → 12%HELPING MAMA'S INC: $214 → 9%WESTSIDE BABY: $1k → 9%CONNECTICUT PARENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 → 9%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 12%WESTSIDE BABY: $1k → 9%CONNECTICUT PARENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $500 → 9%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $13k → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 12%DC DIAPER BANK: $512 → 14%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $85k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $75k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $50k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $50k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK: $45k → 12%HANNA GRAY HOME: $3k → 12%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

VT
WA
MT
MN
WI
NY
MA
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 40 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
59

Total granted

$1.0M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+42%

Still filing today

68%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • ND
    NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $305k · revenue +139%
  • TD
    THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $174k · revenue +464%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $91k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • INVISIBLE PEOPLEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +47%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +33%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
3
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
4
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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5
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
6
Universal Health Care Fndtn of Ct Inc

The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…

Health
7
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…

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8
New Haven Works Inc

To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.

Education
9
The Children's Community Programs of Ct

The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.

Health
10
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

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11
New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc

New haven legal assistance association, inc.'s mission is to provide high quality legal services to individuals, families, and groups who are unable to obtain legal services because of limited income, age, disability, discrimination, and…

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12
Bristol Hospital Inc

Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ocular Melanoma 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

66 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. 66 of the 112 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
49/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC: $174,413 · OtherTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INCBEKI: $83,000 · OtherBEKINHFPL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherNHFPL FOUNDATIONY2Y NEW HAVEN: $50,000 · OtherY2Y NEW HAVENLA LGBT CENTER: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC: $25,000 · Other+67 more: $245,682 · Other+67 moreNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $305,359 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $91,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INCINVISIBLE PEOPLE: $25,000 · Human ServicesINVISIBLE PEOPLE+9 more: $17,894 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $110,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUGH SOCCER: $24,250 · EducationBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $10,204 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 · EducationTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationAFGHAN WOMENS FUND: $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $4,000 · Education+6 more: $4,980 · EducationCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $31,010 · Housing & ShelterNEW REACH INC: $10,113 · Housing & ShelterHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $22,700 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $5,000 · HealthOnline Journalism Project Incorporated: $2,120 · HealthConnecticut Mental Health Center Foundation Inc: $1,530 · Health+3 more: $663 · HealthBENINCASA COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementEconomic Development Corporation of New Haven: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCOLLAB INCORPORATED: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$678,095Human Services$439,253Philanthropy$115,500Education$68,434Housing & Shelter$41,123Health$32,013Community Improvement$25,000

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 budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $305,359 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC: $174,413 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $91,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $31,010 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINVISIBLE PEOPLE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF NEW HAVEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUGH SOCCER: $24,250 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $22,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUTNEY SCHOOL INC: $20,572 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLET THERE BE LIGHT INTERNATIONAL LTBLI at dig: $15,300 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBOUNDLESS ISRAEL INC: $10,204 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEW REACH INC: $10,113 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBENINCASA COMMUNITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCampesinos Sin Fronteras: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEconomic Development Corporation of New Haven: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $7,565 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $5,564 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRO DE LOS DERECHOS DEL MIGRANTE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAll-Options: $5,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLAB INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEvery Bottom Covered Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC): $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAFGHAN WOMENS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $4,813 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRANFORD FOOD PANTRY: $4,021 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHannah Gray Home Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIRCLE CAMPS FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INC: $2,525 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTSPACE INC: $2,150 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOnline Journalism Project Incorporated: $2,120 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD NAF FOUNDATION INC: $1,949 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN JUDGES: $1,580 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Mental Health Center Foundation Inc: $1,530 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONTINUUM OF CARE INC: $1,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY: $1,041 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW HAVEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Community Foundat…Yale UniversitySeedlings FoundationNewalliance Foundatio…United Way of Greater…William Caspar Graust…Ethel & Abe Lapides F…Eder Family Foundatio…Liberty Bank Foundati…Roslyn Milstein Meyer…Fairfield County's Co…Joe & Cindy Goldberg …
The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT42.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Yale University · Seedlings Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc

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 Jms Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jms Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Continuum of Care Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Connecticut Parent Advocacy Center Incorporated: 100% of income from government
  • Columbus House Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc: 75% of income from government
  • Readyct Inc: 61% of income from government
  • The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: 49% of income from government
  • New Reach Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Christian Community Action Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): 11% of income from government
  • New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated: 8% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Benincasa Community Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Jms Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jms Foundation Inc 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 112 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home