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Just Us For All Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Housing & Shelter$465kReligion$220kHealth$109kArts & Culture$39kPhilanthropy$18kSocial Science$6kEducation$5kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFEMOVES$10,000
LIFEMOVES$10,000
JACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION$5,000
BATTERY FOUNDATION$4,000
LOCAL COLOR$1,500
THE FIELD$1,000
CRISIS TEXT LINE INC$1,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC$1,000
JASPER RIDGE FARM$1,000
ART IN ACTION$1,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$500
ART IN ACTION$500
CHILDRENS HEALTH COUNCIL INC$500
DREAM CATCHERS INC$250
STORYTELLER FOUNDATION INC$250
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 (FY22–23, $1k) 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%ASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZENS INC: $500 → 7%INDIVIDUALS NOW INC SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $500 → 9%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$831k · 10 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$831k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+18%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • L
    LIFEMOVES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $465k · revenue +186%
  • CT
    CRISIS TEXT LINE INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue ×11
  • TP
    THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS FILMWORKS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • FILM INDEPENDENT
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -1%
  • DV
    DEFY VENTURES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -17%
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
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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2
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
3
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
4
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
5
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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6
Behavioral Ideas Lab Inc

Ideas42 uses behavioral science - the science of human behavior - to improve lives, build better systems, and drive social change. we work across mutually reinforcing issue areas including: promoting access to quality post-secondary…

Social Science
7
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
8
Moving Picture Institute

The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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10
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
12
The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated

Bay Area Video Coalition, "BAVC Media", inspires social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories through art, education and technology.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives; the most unlike its peers is St Louis Filmworks. 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

27 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. 27 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFEMOVES: $464,625 · OtherLIFEMOVESBENEDICTINE FATHERS OF THE PRIORY: $160,000 · OtherBENEDICTINE FATHERS OF THE PRIORYFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PALO ALTO: $60,300 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PALO ALTO+9 more: $27,150 · OtherCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $101,000 · HealthCRISIS TEXT LI…JACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $2,000 · HealthTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $700 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS FILMWORKS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENT: $5,000 · Arts & CultureART IN ACTION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureDEFY VENTURES INC: $5,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $500 · EducationDream Catchers Inc: $250 · EducationLocal Color: $1,500 · Community ImprovementROTARY CLUB OF MENLO PARK FOUNDATION: $750 · Community ImprovementJasper Ridge Farm: $1,500 · Animals
Other$712,075Health$108,000Philanthropy$18,200Arts & Culture$18,000Education$5,750Community Improvement$2,250Animals$1,500

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 budgetLIFEMOVES: $464,625 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $101,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS FILMWORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACK JABLONSKI BELIEVE IN MIRACLES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLocal Color: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART IN ACTION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJasper Ridge Farm: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF MENLO PARK FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVISION SPORTS ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZENS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoul Centric Empowerment Center: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDream Catchers Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION: $150 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Just Us For All Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Just Us For All Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Just Us For All Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Just Us For All Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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