· Private foundation
Jsj Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of Jsj Family Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Jsj Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $17k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,150 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $2,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN | $1,500 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CHARLES M SCHWARTZ MEM FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $1,000 |
| LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $500 |
| JEWISH COUNCIL ON URBAN AFFAIRS | $500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S BRITTLE BONE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $365 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $365 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +13%
- USUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $3k
- LCLURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL2× · 2017–2018 · $2k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +20%
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +202%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jsj Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jsj Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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