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Josephine Jackson Foundation at a glance

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Josephine Jackson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$15kEducation$15kRecreation & Sports$4kReligion$2kInternational$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$800
Median grant
2
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION$1,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY$800
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$750
HEBREW PUBLIC$500
HADASSAH FOUNDATION$300
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%Bellport Bay Sailing Foundation: $1k → 7%NIGHTINGALE BAMFORD SCHOOL: $2k → 17%Pave Schools: $500 → 20%JOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%Bellport Bay Sailing Foundation: $1k → 7%NIGHTINGALE BANFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 17%Pave Schools: $500 → 20%Bellport Bay Sailing Foundation: $600 → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%Pave Schools: $500 → 20%Bellport Bay Sailing Foundation: $525 → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%Bellport Bay Sailing Foundation: $500 → 7%NIGHTINGALE BANFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $1k → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $1k → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $1k → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1k → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $800 → 7%NIGHTINGALE BANFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $750 → 7%NIGHTINGALE BANFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 17%The Post Morow Foundation: $750 → 7%NIGHTINGALE BANFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $650 → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $750 → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $650 → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $750 → 17%BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $650 → 7%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $750 → 17%The Post Morow Foundation: $250 → 7%HEBREW PUBLIC: $500 → 17%HEBREW PUBLIC: $500 → 17%HEBREW PUBLIC: $500 → 17%HEBREW PUBLIC: $500 → 17%HEBREW PUBLIC: $250 → 17%HADASSAH FOUNDATION: $750 → 17%HADASSAH FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%HADASSAH FOUNDATION: $300 → 17%HADASSAH FOUNDATION: $300 → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $750 → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $750 → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $750 → 17%The Dog Fund: $750 → 17%The Doe Fund: $500 → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of Josephine Jackson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 71%.

Josephine Jackson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$39k · 12 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$39k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+37%

Still filing today

75%
100%

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
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +58%
  • BF
    BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +13%
  • BB
    BELLPORT BAY SAILING FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +37%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    one grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue -31%
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
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
2
Peace Islands Institute New York Inc
Religion
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
The Hearst Foundation
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5
The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
7
Brooklyn Inst of Arts & Sciences Trust
Philanthropy
8
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
9
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
—
10
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
11
The Mayer - Rothschild Foundation
Health
12
Blavatnik Archive Foundation
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Doe Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is John T Hewitt Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,250 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTJOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Arts & CultureJOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATIONNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,250 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureNIGHTINGALE BANFORD SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherNIGHTINGALE BANFORD SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $2,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEBREW PUBLIC: $2,250 · OtherHEBREW PUBLICPOST-MORROW FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · OtherPOST-MORROW FOUNDATION INCBROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $6,500 · EducationBROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARYPAVE SCHOOLS INC: $1,500 · EducationPAVE SCHOOLS INCTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SC…BELLPORT BAY SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $3,725 · Youth DevelopmentBELLPORT B…THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 · PhilanthropyTHE DOE FUND INC: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$12,250Other$11,200Education$9,500Youth Development$3,725Philanthropy$2,100Housing & Shelter$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $7,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY: $6,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBELLPORT BAY SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $3,725 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $2,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAVE SCHOOLS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $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.

  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds BROOKHAVEN FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds BELLPORT BAY SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PAVE SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds POST-MORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Josephine Jackson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Josephine Jackson 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%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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 Josephine Jackson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Josephine Jackson 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 14 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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