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JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$650
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,750
Organizations funded a year
15 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$142k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureReligionCivil RightsOther
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
FY2025still arriving21$14k14%
FY202417$14k12%
FY202320$15k5%
FY202220$15k0%
FY202120$15k5%
FY202015$9k7%
FY201919$10k16%
FY201821$11k0%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$65kReligion$16kHealth$14kHuman Services$8kAnimals$6kEnvironment$3kCivil Rights$2kSocial Science$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $12,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $11,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Society Inc: $11,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $6,225 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $4,080 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $4,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $3,470 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $2,925 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $2,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association: $1,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRubin Museum of Art Aka the Shelley & Donald Rubin Cultural Trust: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWnet: $200 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 22.

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About JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc

How much does JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc give?
JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc reported 21 grants totaling $14,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (57%), Religion (14%), Health (12%).
Who are JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Synagogue of Nassau County ($14k), American Museum of Natural History ($12k), The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc ($12k).
Does JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc based?
JohnMary & Bernard Jacobs FoundInc is based in NY.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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