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Jso Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2019
36
Grants FY2019
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Health$122kEducation$115kPhilanthropy$39kReligion$21kHuman Services$17kFood & Nutrition$16kArts & Culture$14kCrime & Legal$13kOther$0
02FY2019 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k31 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$10,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$10,000
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$10,000
FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS$8,000
92ND STREET Y$6,000
GOUCHER COLLEGE$5,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN$5,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$5,000
BOSTONS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$5,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$5,000
GALLOP NYC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GALLOP NYC: $5k → 13%GALLOP NYC: $6k → 20%GALLOP NYC: $3k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
TX
FL

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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$237k · 20 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
19

Total granted

$237k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+55%

Still filing today

80%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthEducationFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther

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

  • FF
    FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $31k · revenue +128%
  • PS
    PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +49%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • M
    MISCELLANEOUS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Residences and Essential Enterprises Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMedical Research FundingAffordable Housing Developm…Performing Arts Organizatio…Food Insecurity ReliefUrban Parks & Historic Pres…Fraternal Social ClubsJewish Education and Charit…
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
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 51 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr12%38%35–55yr13%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%4%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr12%44%35–55yr13%37%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
12%
7,234/60,641

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.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
30/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VASSAR COLLEGE — $20,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $20,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ART — $11,000 · OtherCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTWEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherWEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEMISCELLANEOUS — $10,000 · OtherMISCELLANEOUSWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE — $10,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEBOSTONS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $7,500 · OtherTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN — $13,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED …ART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND — $5,500 · Other+22 more — $48,150 · Other+22 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $28,500 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLINDGOUCHER COLLEGE — $15,000 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGEAUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationAUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SC…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · EducationLiteracy Partners Inc — $3,500 · Education+2 more — $3,200 · EducationFEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS — $30,500 · HealthFEDERATION FOR CHI…SMILE MASS INC — $7,010 · HealthSMILE MASS INCNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE …BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $5,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACON…HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON'S DISEA…Franciscan Hospital for Children — $3,500 · HealthFranciscan Hospita…+5 more — $4,900 · Health+5 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $19,000 · ReligionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $9,200 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $4,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC — $3,000 · Food & NutritionGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $14,000 · Human Services
Other$155,150Education$95,200Health$60,910Philanthropy$21,000Religion$19,000Food & Nutrition$16,200Human Services$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS — $30,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $28,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $9,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE MASS INC — $7,010 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND — $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACDS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESIDENCES AND ESSENTIAL ENTERPRISES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BINA FARM INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE HILLS MUSIC ACADEMY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildstar Equine Assisted Activities and Therapy In — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organization Jso Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc63% of income from government
  • Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc10% of income from government
  • Federation for Children Wspecial Needs10% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children0% of income from government
  • Goucher College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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