Illinois · Private foundation
Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs 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.
- $358k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 59
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $353k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $335k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $336k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $366k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $330k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zion Grove Baptist Church | $94,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Berea College | $82,500 | 5 | 0% |
| La Rabida Children's Hospital | $68,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Painted Turtle | $62,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Nourishing Hope | $57,500 | 5 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sos International Inc | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $47,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $47,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Midwest Food Bank Nfp | $42,500 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($444k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
Compare Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation with peer funders
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About Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation
- How much does Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation give?
- Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $357,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 59 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (21%), Health (18%), International (14%).
- Who are Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Zion Grove Baptist Church ($94k), Berea College ($83k), La Rabida Children's Hospital ($68k).
- Does Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Baxter International Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation based?
- Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation is based in IL.
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