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· Private foundation
JSL FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$35k
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
4
Communities
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Religion$271kEducation$3kInternational$1kArts & Culture$960Environment$788Animals$300Human Services$100Health$100Recreation & Sports$40Other$134k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
youngmusicprayercreateworship jesusglorious churchbuild
2020
environmentpreserveenhancebibleparkraisehealing
2021
personalmiminspire educateworld-classbotanical gardenappreciationharp
2022
hopelessseekgroupsstudyencouragementrefugebuilding
2023
healingstudyseminarscreationtogetherconferenceshistory
2024
sciencepowerspirituallove
2025
sportrightministryplaceschineseearthexperiences
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$1,011
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Launchpoint Church$18,546
- Seven Spirits Church$6,027
- Cove Life$6,000
- First Baptist Belton$2,000
- Providence Preparatory School$1,011
- Compassion International Inc$516
- David Hernandez Ministries$382
- Space Center Houston$191
- Perot Museum$165
- International Christian Embassy Jer$50
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 82% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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 earmarks the money.
About 75% of JSL FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 66% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 75% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
JSL FAMILY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$364k · 14 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
54
Total granted
$364k
$21k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+7%
+21%
Still filing today
21%
31%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
ReligionArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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
- IPImmanuel Prayer House2× · 2021–2022 · $271k · revenue +778% · 38% of their budget
- RROLCC3× · 2018–2020 · $41k
- CLCove Life3× · 2022–2024 · $20k
Funded once
- RORiver of Life Churchone grant, 2021 · $6k
- ITIsareal Tantur Ecomenical Instituteone grant, 2018 · $3k
- VCVictory Christian Centerone grant, 2023 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
To maintain for public use, a botanical and zoological garden; to preserve and study native hawaiian and exotic flora and fauna in a natural garden setting.
Environment
2
American Museum of Natural History
Nat history museum, planetarium, collections, library, scientific research, graduate school (ph.d./ comp biology & mat/education), education & exhibitions (sch o).
Arts & Culture
3
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
The museum inspires a thirst for discovery and a passion for the natural world.
Arts & Culture
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…
Youth Development
6
International Wildlife
The international wildlife refuge foundation was created in 2005 to help foster conservation, increase refuge visibility, encourage support, and enhance quality of life. it is an alliance of organizations and individuals that builds the…
Environment
7
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity.
Arts & Culture
8
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Environment
9
National Park Trust Inc
Preserving parks today; creating park stewards for tomorrow.
Environment
10
National Parks Traveler
National parks traveler is the world's top-rated, editorially independent, nonprofit media organization dedicated to covering national parks and protected areas on a daily basis. the traveler's journalists work to inform the general public…
Recreation & Sports
11
Parrots in Paradise
Animals
12
Pacific Historic Parks
To support the national park service and hawaii's department of land and natural resources, through research, preservation, restoration, fund development, education, and interpretive programs of world war ii in the pacific and other…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Morton Arboretum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
13%
17,176/136,770
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.
06the grantee network
23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Religion$271,404Other$134,259Education$2,911International$1,065Arts & Culture$960Environment$788Animals$300
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 Immanuel Prayer House ↗
- Who funds National Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Inc ↗
- Who funds Providence Preparatory School ↗
- Who funds Khan Academy ↗
- Who funds Philomath Foundation ↗
- Who funds League To Save Lake Tahoe ↗
- Who funds Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum ↗
- Who funds A Transforming Word Ministries ↗
- Who funds National Aquarium ↗
- Who funds B O K Ranch ↗
- Who funds Oregon Parks Forever ↗
- Who funds National Tropical Botanical Garden ↗
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.
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation JSL FAMILY FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Immanuel Prayer House.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~105 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 742614577 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Immanuel Prayer House, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 105 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 38% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Jsl Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Jsl Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines