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Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation at a glance

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Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$143k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $143k
$142,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCORD ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST$142,500
ST PAUL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$25,000
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 (FY18–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JASON FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%JASON FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%ALIVE HOSPICE: $50k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 8 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$2.5M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+24%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthReligionHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2017–2020 · $650k · revenue +120%
  • TJ
    THE JASON FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +65%
  • CO
    CHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $11k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • AH
    ALIVE HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +16%
  • MU
    MORRISON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • MB
    MTSU BOARD OF TRUSTEE FUND FOR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
2
Mcmurry University

Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.

Education
3
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
4
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education
7
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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8
Truett Mcconnell University Inc

The mission of truett mcconnell university, a georgia baptist university, is to equip students to fulfill the great comission by fostering a christian worldview through a biblically centered education in a family-friendly environment.

Education
9
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
10
Florida Southern College

Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…

Education
11
Texas Christian University

Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…

Education
12
Baptist Memorial Hospital

Baptist memorial hospital provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cookeville Regional Charitable Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Proverbs 1210 Animal Rescue and Adoption. 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 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONCORD ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST: $1,391,000 · OtherCONCORD ROAD CHURCH OF CHRISTMORRISON SCHOOL: $325,000 · OtherMORRISON SCHOOL+6 more: $87,500 · OtherVanderbilt University Medical Center: $649,992 · HealthVanderbilt University Medica…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthALIVE HOSPICE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE JASON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC: $11,000 · ReligionWORLD BIBLE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · ReligionPROVERBS 1210 ANIMAL RESCUE AND ADOPTION: $10,000 · AnimalsMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY: $250 · EducationNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,803,500Health$654,992Human Services$75,000Religion$16,000Animals$10,000Education$5,750Philanthropy$1,000

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

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
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…Baird Foundation IncHca Healthcare Founda…Christian Community F…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Natl Christian Charit…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Joey and Deborah Jacobs Family Foundation 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 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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