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Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$142,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$142,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionEducationAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$168k0%
FY20235$152k60%
FY20224$99k25%
FY20213$86k0%
FY20204$629k50%
FY20193$143k67%
FY20186$562k67%
FY20176$729kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$1.4MHealth$730kEducation$387kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kAnimals$10kPhilanthropy$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concord Road Church of Christ$1,391,0008n/a
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$649,99220%
St Paul Christian Academy$50,0002n/a
Alive Hospice Inc$50,00010%
Morrison United Methodist Church$30,0001n/a
The Jason Foundation Inc$25,00021%
Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc$11,00030%
Proverbs 1210 Animal Rescue and Adoption$10,00021%
Middle Tennessee State University Foundation$5,50020%
Cookeville Regional Charitable Foundation Inc$5,00010%
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All grantees of Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concord Road Church of Christ$1,391,0008n/a
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$649,99220%
St Paul Christian Academy$50,0002n/a
Alive Hospice Inc$50,00010%
Morrison United Methodist Church$30,0001n/a
The Jason Foundation Inc$25,00021%
Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc$11,00030%
Proverbs 1210 Animal Rescue and Adoption$10,00021%
Middle Tennessee State University Foundation$5,50020%
Cookeville Regional Charitable Foundation Inc$5,00010%
World Bible School Inc$5,00010%
Nashville Predators Foundation$1,00010%
Lipscomb University$50010%
Misericordia University$25010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($332k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $649,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlive Hospice Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Jason Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChurches of Christ Disaster Relief Effort Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProverbs 1210 Animal Rescue and Adoption: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMiddle Tennessee State University Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCookeville Regional Charitable Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWorld Bible School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNashville Predators Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLipscomb University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMisericordia University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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About Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation

How much does Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation give?
Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $167,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Health (28%), Education (15%).
Who are Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Concord Road Church of Christ ($1.4M), Vanderbilt University Medical Center ($650k), St Paul Christian Academy ($50k).
Does Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
Where is Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation based?
Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 18 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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