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Jwg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$368kEducation$106kInternational$89kAnimals$47kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kEnvironment$17kFood & Nutrition$14kArts & Culture$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW YORK$20,000
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$20,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$15,000
FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS$10,000
TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
THE SEEING EYE$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%GBGIDP FDN: $5k → 7%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $12k → 28%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY NJ CHAPTER: $6k → 4%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%PASTORALIST CHILD FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $10k → 6%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $10k → 28%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY NJ CHAPTER: $5k → 4%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%PASTORALIST CHILD FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $10k → 6%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $10k → 28%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $10k → 6%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $10k → 28%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $10k → 6%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $10k → 6%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $10k → 6%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 16%FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS: $5k → 6%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 16%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%ALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $20k → 17%ALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $20k → 17%MASTER GARDENERS OF ESSEX COUNTY: $5k → 16%ALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $20k → 17%MASTER GARDENERS OF ESSEX COUNTY: $5k → 16%ALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $20k → 17%ALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $20k → 17%MONTCLAIR HISTORY CENTER: $5k → 16%MONTCLAIR HISTORY CENTER: $4k → 16%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$683k · 16 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$683k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
-7%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalAnimalsEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Bucknell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +45%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +98%
  • THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RAPTOR TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • O
    ONEGOAL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -7%
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 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
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
The Glaucoma Foundation Inc

The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…

Health
5
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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6
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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8
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
9
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
10
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
11
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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12
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pastoralist Child Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $114,080 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCE…THE SEEING EYE INC: $66,055 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATIONALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $100,000 · OtherALS FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW …AMERICAN RED CROSS: $38,080 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY NJ CHAPTER: $17,250 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY NJ CHAP…MASTER GARDENERS OF ESSEX COUNTY INC: $12,080 · OtherMASTER GARDENERS OF ESSEX COUN…MONTCLAIR HISTORY CENTER: $11,080 · OtherMONTCLAIR HISTORY CENTER+2 more: $7,080 · OtherBucknell University: $101,000 · EducationBucknell Univers…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $67,080 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …Pastoralist Child Foundation: $22,000 · InternationalPastoralist Ch…+1 more: $1,055 · InternationalTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $67,080 · HealthTHE FOUNDA…Wildlife Conservation Society: $42,000 · AnimalsTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $5,000 · AnimalsONEGOAL: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,080 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$200,135Other$185,570Education$101,000International$90,135Health$67,080Animals$47,000Youth Development$5,000Food & Nutrition$2,080

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 budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $114,080 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBucknell University: $101,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $67,080 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $67,080 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $66,055 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPastoralist Child Foundation: $22,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONEGOAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $2,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $1,055 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds Pastoralist Child Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jwg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jwg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jwg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jwg 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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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