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JRBF Foundation at a glance

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JRBF Foundation

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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$105kHousing & Shelter$22kScience & Tech$20kPublic Benefit$19kCommunity Improvement$11kReligion$9kHuman Services$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHEAST SEATTLE EDUCATION COALITION$15,000
RESILIENCE RELIEF & RECOVERY REACH INC$12,000
EVERY ORG$10,200
OPPORTUNITY DEKALB INC$10,000
EVERY ORG$8,500
CASCADIA PTA$5,000
FRIENDS OF SALMON BAY$5,000
INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC$5,000
COMCODE$5,000
NORTH BEACH ELEMENTARY PTA SEATTLE COUNCIL 6 15 25$5,000
FRIENDS OF INGRAHAM HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
IAM FOUNDATION$4,000
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 (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRIANGLE AREA PARENTING SUPPORT: $8k → 8%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175k · 9 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
4

Total granted

$175k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyScience & TechHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FO
    Friends of Salmon Bay
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • CP
    Cascadia PTA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • FO
    Friends of Ingraham
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • TA
    TRIANGLE AREA PARENTING SUPPORT
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -3%
  • QM
    QUEST MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • V
    VILLAGECO
    one grant, 2024 · $4k
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
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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2
Pta California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc

to fund and help students with supplies field trip event and extracurricular activity costs.

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3
San Francisco Coalition of Essential Small Schools

Our organizations primary exempt purpose is to advance educational equity by supporting small, innovative public schools and the educators who serve them. We provide professional development, student leadership opportunities, community…

Education
4
Puget Sound Community School

Founded in 1994, PSCS is a small, independent middle and high school located in the Chinatown/International District of downtown Seattle. PSCS is committed to co-creating a brave space for community-centered education, critical curriculum,…

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5
Technologists for the Public Good

At Technologists for the Public Good (TPG), we aim to power and lift up the people who are reimagining how the government serves the public, harnessing the power of technology. We believe in building a vibrant community of individuals…

Community Improvement
6
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
7
San Francisco Parent Action

To empower public school parents in San Francisco to advocate for policy change and local candidates who support public school families and students.

Education
8
San Francisco Parent Coalition

San Francisco Parent Coalition centers the needs of children and youth in San Francisco by bringing together a diverse network of parents and caregivers to advocate for a thriving, equitable school system.

Education
9
Foundation for Portland Public Schools

The Mission of the Foundation for Portland Public Schools is to be a catalyst for increased educational opportunities, achievement, and equity for all Portland Public Schools students and staff.

Philanthropy
10
Pangea Giving

Pangea Giving supports grassroots organizations globally to improve the well-being of their communities through engaged giving.

—
11
Amy Imai Elementary Pta

to support and enhance the educationals experience for students at Amy Imai Elementary School and to support staff and parents

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12
The Social Engineering Project

The Social Engineering Project, Inc. TSEP is an Oakland based, 501c3 tax exempt social impact venture with Stanford University designed to address the lack of diversity in the tech industry through culturally relevant STEM pipeline…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inquiring Systems Inc; the most unlike its peers is Iam Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southeast Seattle Education Coalition: $40,000 · EducationSoutheast Seattle Education CoalitionNorth Beach Elementary PTA: $25,000 · EducationNorth Beach Elementary PTAFriends of Salmon Bay: $20,000 · EducationFriends of Salmon BayCascadia PTA: $10,000 · EducationCascadia PTAFriends of Ingraham: $10,000 · EducationFriends of IngrahamEVERY ORG: $27,900 · PhilanthropyEVERY ORGOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $15,100 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDA…OPPORTUNITY DEKALB INC: $10,000 · OtherOPPORTUNITY…QUEST MINISTRIES: $5,000 · OtherQUEST MINIS…VILLAGECO: $4,000 · OtherVILLAGECOUNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY …ComCODE: $20,000 · Science & TechComCODEResilience Relief & Recovery Reach Inc: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterTRIANGLE AREA PARENTING SUPPORT: $8,000 · Human ServicesINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $7,000 · Community ImprovementIAM FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Public Benefit
Education$105,000Philanthropy$43,000Other$23,000Science & Tech$20,000Housing & Shelter$12,000Human Services$8,000Community Improvement$7,000Public Benefit$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSoutheast Seattle Education Coalition: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEVERY ORG: $27,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Beach Elementary PTA: $25,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetComCODE: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFriends of Salmon Bay: $20,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $15,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResilience Relief & Recovery Reach Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCascadia PTA: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of Ingraham: $10,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTRIANGLE AREA PARENTING SUPPORT: $8,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 JRBF Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from JRBF Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    2report 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.

    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 16 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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