· Public charity
John George Jr Paragraph X Trust
To provide low cost college loans to students from jackson area high schools.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of JOHN GEORGE JR PARAGRAPH X TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $448k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $682k
- $250k+1 grant · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHFIELDS | $390,179 |
| COLLEGE CAREER & ACCESS CENTER | $140,000 |
| RISE ABOVE | $100,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES AND CHILDREN'S AID | $90,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON | $85,000 |
| ISAIAH'S HUB - SUMMER PROGRAM | $84,285 |
| LILY MISSIONS CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE WELCOME HOME ORGANIZATION | $57,378 |
| MYPLACE | $50,000 |
| MLK RECREATION CENTER | $48,573 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON | $43,505 |
| JACKSON INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| DA VINCI CHARTER SCHOOL | $39,848 |
| TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE | $32,548 |
| SPRINGPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $32,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
- JSJACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +73%
- FSFamily Service and Childrens Aid7× · 2018–2024 · $607k · revenue +20%
- HIHIGHFIELDS INC2× · 2020–2024 · $463k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR WOMEN PREGNANCY COUNSELING SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $159k · revenue +76% · 81% of their budget
- IHISAIAH'S HUBone grant, 2023 · $36k
- CCCatholic Charities of Jacksonone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +7%
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.
To provide high quality, comprehensive child development and after school care to ensure that children can reach their highest potential
The mission of jackson community ambulance is to provide high-quality out-of-hospital care and transportation services to the communities we serve.
JACKSON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY will provide canned, boxed, fresh and frozen food to all who come to our door, without judgement or barrier.
Child abuse response and prevention through service, education, and leadership
To be a multifaceted housing organization devoted to catalyzing intentional on and off site collaborative partnerships that reduces homelessness and creates sustainable communities through affordable quality housing continued education job…
To renovate and restore the historic theatre and to provide a versatile center for the arts, entertainment, and education.
To be a leading driver and advocate for community and economic development in jackson county.
Casa is a unique non-profit helping abused and neglected children in the jackson county family court system. our team of trained volunteers,staff case supervisors, and staff attorneys allow each child to be represented in a court of law…
Our vision is to seek the wholistic wellbeing of the Jackson neighborhood, where residents are known, valued, and empowered to collaborate for the thriving of its people and place.
The Jackson Symphony enriches and inspires audiences through the power of live orchestral music.
Assist in the development of projects in cooperation with the local government and civic bodies that secure additional employment opportunities and facilities in jackson county indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson School of the Arts Assoc and the most unlike its peers is The Xchange Teen Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 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.
26 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. 26 of the 45 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
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 JACKSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family Service and Childrens Aid ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson School of the Arts Assoc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS CENTER OF JACKSON ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES OF JACKSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN PREGNANCY COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE XCHANGE TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JACKSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MYPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN GEORGE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds SOAR CAFE AND FARMS ↗
- Who funds Jackson Interfaith Shelter ↗
- Who funds LILY MISSIONS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jackson YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds GROW JACKSON ↗
- Who funds JACKSON PREPARATORY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jackson Community Foundation · The Alvin L Glick Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Hurst Foundation · Lavery Foundation · Phil & Pat Willis Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · The L H Field Family Foundation · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Melling Family Foundation · Macchia Family Foundation · Wa Foote Memorial Hospital
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 John George Jr Paragraph X Trust 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.
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.