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Jwl 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
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 2025.

Health$98kHuman Services$68kInternational$30kCivil Rights$30kEducation$18kFood & Nutrition$4kPhilanthropy$2k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLACE OF HOPE$10,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST$10,000
GERTRUDE WALDEN CHILD CARE CENTER INC$5,000
CARP (COMPREHENSIVE ALCOHOLISM REHABILITATION PROGRAMS) INC$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BORDER ANGELS: $5k → 11%RISING GROUND: $20k → 20%FACES OF COURAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS' RIGHTS: $2k → 14%BORDER ANGELS: $4k → 11%RISING GROUND: $15k → 20%PLACE OF HOPE: $10k → 11%FACES OF COURAGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS' RIGHTS: $2k → 14%BORDER ANGELS: $3k → 11%BORDER ANGELS: $2k → 11%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
VA
DC
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Jwl Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jwl Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 19 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$215k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+24%

Still filing today

79%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • SC
    STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +62%
  • RG
    RISING GROUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +1%
  • AY
    AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +24%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +8%
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
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
2
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health
3
Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc

The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…

Health
4
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
5
Global Alliance for Children

Promoting and supporting the development of national and community level systems that help children realize their full potential within a nurturing, protective family care environment.

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6
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
7
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Partners in Child Development Inc

To provide educational and therapeutic services, at a professional level, for infants, toddlers and preschool children up to 12 years and their families through supporting the family unit and working with each child to develop his or her…

Human Services
10
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
11
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Futures Without Violence; the most unlike its peers is Faces of Courage Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 25 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $39,780 · OtherSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONCOSTUMERS WITH A CAUSE: $13,717 · OtherCOSTUMERS WITH A CAUSEFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $13,717 · OtherFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCEMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $13,217 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INCCARP (COMPREHENSIVE ALCOHOLISM REHABILITATION PROGRAMS) INC: $5,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION - CATALYST PROJECT: $4,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOLD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSN OF NY CITY INC: $4,000 · Other+3 more: $7,900 · Other+3 moreRISING GROUND INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesRISING GROUND INCBORDER ANGELS: $17,717 · Human ServicesBORDER ANGELSPLACE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INCTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT …FACES OF COURAGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $13,717 · HealthPLANNED PAR…Children's Hospital Corporation: $10,000 · HealthChildren's …HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthHAZELDEN BE…AGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $17,717 · EducationAGAHOZO-SH…Gertrude Walden Child Care Center: $5,000 · EducationGertrude W…Best Buddies International Inc: $13,717 · InternationalPlanting Justice: $4,000 · EnvironmentDREAMORG: $4,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$105,331Human Services$69,717Health$25,717Education$22,717International$13,717Environment$8,000Crime & Legal$4,000

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 budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $39,780 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRISING GROUND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGAHOZO-SHALOM YOUTH VILLAGE INC: $17,717 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBORDER ANGELS: $17,717 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $13,717 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $13,717 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $13,717 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA INC: $13,217 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGertrude Walden Child Care Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPlanting Justice: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMORG: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFACES OF COURAGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNathaniel's Hope Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $1,900 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–90%
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 Jwl Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jwl 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 25 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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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