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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$10,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$10,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$10,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS$8,000
92ND STREET Y$6,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN$5,000
BOSTONS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
GOUCHER COLLEGE$5,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$5,000
NYU LANGONE HEALTH$5,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
GALLOP NYC$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
TX
FL
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • FF
    FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $31k · revenue +97%
  • PS
    PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
    3× · 2017–2019 · $29k · revenue +49%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • WC
    WEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • AU
    AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -36%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Residences and Essential Enterprises Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 57 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $20,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTERVASSAR COLLEGE: $20,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGECAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ART: $11,000 · OtherCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEWEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherWEIL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEMISCELLANEOUS: $10,000 · OtherMISCELLANEOUSBOSTONS 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 INCBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACON…HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthHUNTINGTON'S DISEA…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE …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 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 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 budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $20,000 over 3y, 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 budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetFAMILY RESIDENCES AND ESSENTIAL ENTERPRISES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BINA FARM INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $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
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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Online Givin…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Federation for Children Wspecial Needs: 10% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% 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, 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 57 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home