· Public charity
Jobs for the Future Inc
Jff is building a future that works - for everyone.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $5.5M
- $250k+11 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURNING GLASS INSTITUTE | $1,050,450 |
| EDX BOOT CAMPS LLC | $948,298 |
| EDX LLC | $800,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $697,403 |
| THE COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS LTD | $400,000 |
| THE EMPOWERMENT CENTER | $350,000 |
| CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES | $275,217 |
| JEVS HUMAN SERVICES | $255,232 |
| INTELLIGENT PARTNERSHIPS INC | $255,125 |
| JFF LABS INC | $250,000 |
| HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY TRAINING AND EDUCATION FUND DBA HOSPITALITY TRAINING | $250,000 |
| FSG INC | $247,500 |
| CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO DBA OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEV | $227,730 |
| CENTER FOR CAREGIVER ADVANCEMENT | $200,000 |
| EL SOL NEIGHBORHOOD EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $200,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Jobs for the Future Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
189 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 118 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PSPER SCHOLAS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $1.7M · revenue +480%
- BGBURNING GLASS INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +31%
- WRWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP5× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TBTURNING BASIN LABS CO-OP INCone grant, 2023 · $610k
- AFAudacious Futures Corporationone grant, 2019 · $506k
- PLPANOWATCH LLCone grant, 2023 · $318k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
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The attainment network builds networks that transform education-to-workforce systems, erase persistent and pervasive equity gaps, expand opportunities for learners, and meet the economic demands for a highly skilled and educated workforce.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Capital Workforce Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Here to Here 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
238 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 238 of the 432 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BURNING GLASS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH TECH HIGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Chicago Federation of Labor Workforce and Community Initiative ↗
- Who funds INLAND EMPIRE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds LABOR INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEVS HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY TRAINING & EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Association of Community Colleges · The Aspen Institute Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · New America Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Achieving the Dream Inc · Gates Foundation · Mdrc · American Association of Colleges and Universities · College Futures Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Truth Initiative Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jobs for the Future Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Capital Workforce Partners Inc — 86% of income from government
- Masshire Hampden County Workforce Board Inc — 72% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Newark Alliance Inc — 6% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Employ Prince George's County — 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% of income from government
- Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.