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Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable 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.

$36k
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

78% of Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to New Venture Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $36k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
6
’18
10
’19
5
’20
3
’21
2
’22
1
’23
2
’24
5
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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.

Education$472kPhilanthropy$124kHealth$22kArts & Culture$21kHuman Services$10kCivil Rights$7kYouth Development$3kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k7 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$199k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$20,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$5,000
PROMISE PROJECT - FCNY$2,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,500
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$2,500
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$2,000
SPARK YOUTH NYC$1,000
THE 1898 FOUNDATION$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $175) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $175 → 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

NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
VA
NC
DC
AL
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.
$528k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$528k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+6%

Still filing today

67%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
HealthEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • CG
    COLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $18k · revenue +35%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +71%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • OB
    Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -51%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; the most unlike its peers is Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding. 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

26 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. 26 of the 41 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $390,000 · EducationGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMYCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $18,000 · Education+2 more: $3,500 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · OtherWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYMARY MCDOWELL FRIENDS FUND: $19,000 · OtherMARY MCDOWELL FRIEND…PROMISE PROJECT - FCNY: $10,000 · OtherPROMISE PROJECT - FC…ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherRONALD B RAMIN CHARITABLE DONATION SEVENTEEN WORLD PREMIERE: $5,000 · OtherTHE SOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Other+18 more: $14,625 · Other+18 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $100,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,500 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalMARY DIAZ PANCREATIC CANCER FUND: $3,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 · HealthBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,000 · HealthWestchester Medical Center Foundation: $500 · HealthTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · International
Education$411,500Other$118,625Environment$100,000Arts & Culture$16,000Crime & Legal$9,500Health$9,500International$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY: $390,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOLUMBIA GRAMMAR AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURKISH PHILANTHROPY FUNDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARY DIAZ PANCREATIC CANCER FUND: $3,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSPARKYOUTH NYC INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget1898 FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOutward Bound Center for Peacebuilding: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTREPID FALLEN HEROES FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLYTHEDALE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Medical Center Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIGRAINE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $175 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable 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 41 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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