· Private foundation
Jw and Ida M Jameson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $568k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOOR OF HOPE | $60,000 |
| PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $42,500 |
| LA CANADA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| LA CANADA HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS | $35,000 |
| AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC | $30,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES | $25,000 |
| CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY | $25,000 |
| RM PYLES BOYS CAMP | $25,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION - JW & IDA M JAMESON FUND | $25,000 |
| CITY BLESSING CHURCH | $25,000 |
| UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES | $25,000 |
| VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UOUniversity of Michigan6× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +202% · 38% of their budget
- DODOOR OF HOPE8× · 2018–2025 · $250k · revenue +183%
- LCLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- HHILLSDALEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CACHRISTIAN ASSEMBLYone grant, 2017 · $15k
- LWLuggage With Loveone grant, 2017 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
Maranatha high school is a christ-centered, evangelical college preparatory school that celebrates the whole student by equipping hearts and minds to reflect god's glory through academics, as well as the arts, athletics, and service. we…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services and the most unlike its peers is Puget Sound Strategic Ministries. 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 83 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LA CANADA BASEBALLSOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena City College Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RM PYLES BOYS CAMP ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Hypoparathyroidism Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA POMERANIAN RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR ↗
- Who funds Alameda Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ABILITYFIRST ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TROJAN FOOTBALL ALUMNI CLUB ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND STRATEGIC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds REASONS TO BELIEVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Patron Saints Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · Sempra Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc
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 Jw and Ida M Jameson 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.
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.
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