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Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$20k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$367kHealth$316kInternational$236kEducation$226kHuman Services$175kReligion$130kYouth Development$86kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $175k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $183k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEREA COLLEGE$20,000
LA RABIDA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$20,000
ZION GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH$20,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$17,500
PAINTED TURTLE CAMP$15,000
PATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$10,000
HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$10,000
WEST VALLEY FOOD PANTY$10,000
DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION$10,000
NOURISHING HOPE$10,000
GOOD SHEPARD CENTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN$10,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH CLINIC$9,500
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 (FY21–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A SENSE OF HOME: $3k → 14%PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $5k → 20%A FAMILY FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 15%A SENSE OF HOME: $2k → 14%PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $4k → 20%FIRST FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD LITERACY: $2k → 11%FIRST FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD LITERACY: $2k → 11%HUNGER RESOURCE NETWORK: $2k → 14%GOLDEN HEART RANCH: $4k → 14%GOLDEN HEART RANCH: $4k → 14%GOLDEN HEART RANCH: $4k → 14%GOLDEN HEART RANCH: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 14%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
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 65 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
22

Total granted

$1.6M
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • BEREA COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +16%
  • LR
    La Rabida Children's Hospital
    5× · 2021–2025 · $68k · revenue +30%
  • NH
    NOURISHING HOPE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR TRAINING & SUCCESS
    one grant, 2021 · $14k
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -65%
  • YE
    YWCA EvanstonNorth Shore
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -55%
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
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
4
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
6
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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7
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
8
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
10
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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11
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
12
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Association for Training & Success. 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

63 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. 63 of the 93 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
33/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ZION GROVE BAPTIST CHURCH: $94,000 · OtherZION GROVE BAPTIST CHURCHWEST VALLEY FOOD PANTY: $70,000 · OtherWEST VALLEY FOOD PANTYNOURISHING HOPE: $57,500 · OtherNOURISHING HOPESOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $52,500 · OtherSOS INTERNATIONAL INCCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS: $31,000 · OtherPATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY: $30,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPARD CENTER FOR HOMELESS WOMEN: $30,000 · Other+44 more: $448,275 · Other+44 moreLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $68,000 · HealthLa Rabida Chil…CHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $34,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S DEN…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $31,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HE…SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $27,500 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S H…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSI…THE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthTHE MPN RESEAR…California Nurses Foundation: $14,000 · HealthCalifornia Nur…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $10,000 · HealthBEREA COLLEGE: $82,500 · EducationBEREA COLL…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $55,000 · EducationUNITED NEG…OPEN BOOKS LTD: $10,000 · EducationOPEN BOOKS…WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationWILLIAM RA…+2 more: $7,500 · EducationSave The Children Federation Inc: $47,500 · InternationalSave The C…Mercy Ships International: $32,500 · InternationalMercy Ship…MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,500 · InternationalMEDSHARE I…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…+4 more: $20,000 · International+4 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $47,500 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $27,500 · Food & NutritionWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH HOLLYWOOD INTERFAITH FOOD PAN: $13,500 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13,500 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL DOWNTOWN FOOD BASKET: $5,500 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $42,500 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HEART RANCH: $13,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesAlices Kids Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesA SENSE OF HOME: $4,500 · Human ServicesFERST READERS INC: $4,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $62,500 · Youth Development
Other$893,275Health$225,000Education$165,000International$157,500Food & Nutrition$132,500Human Services$96,000Youth Development$62,500

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 budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $82,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $68,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAINTED TURTLE: $62,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $57,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOS INTERNATIONAL INC: $52,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $47,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMercy Ships International: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Nurses Foundation: $14,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNORTH HOLLYWOOD INTERFAITH FOOD PAN: $13,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOLDEN HEART RANCH: $13,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN BOOKS LTD: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER BASICS INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL DOWNTOWN FOOD BASKET: $5,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAlices Kids Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAZOM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA EvanstonNorth Shore: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMBURGER HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
  • Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PATERSON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE MPN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗

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…Baxter International …The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Enterprise Holdings F…AbbVie FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY15.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • A Family for Every Child: 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Lee Ann and Melvin H Jacobs 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 93 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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