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Margaret G Jacobs Charitable Trust at a glance

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Margaret G Jacobs Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0194% 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$128kEducation$84kPublic Safety & Disaster$80kHealth$76kHuman Services$65kAnimals$38kArts & Culture$33kCrime & Legal$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $130,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANNA$26,000
American Red Cross of Southeastern PA$25,000
SHARE Food Bank$10,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Diabetes$10,000
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Penn Veterinary Medicine$10,000
The Adoption Center$10,000
Free Library of Philadelphia Fdn.$7,500
Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project$7,500
Mercy Career and Technical High$5,000
Salvation Army$5,000
Grayson School$5,000
Thomas Jefferson University$5,000
Brain Aneurysm Foundation$1,000
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$1,000
Give Kids The World$1,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$444k · 20 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
16

Total granted

$444k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+12%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +196%
  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • PI
    PA Institutional Law Project
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AC
    Animal Control and Care Team
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • IM
    Independence Mission School
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
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.

03Its 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
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
2
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.

Health
7
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
8
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
9
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philabundance; the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 42 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Red Cross of Southeastern PA: $80,000 · OtherAmerican Red Cross of Southeastern PATrustees of the University of Pennsylvania Penn Veterinary Medicine: $30,000 · OtherTrustees of the University of Pennsylvania Penn Veterinary MedicineTrustees of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Diabetes: $30,000 · OtherTrustees of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for DiabetesAdoption Center: $30,000 · OtherAdoption CenterSHARE Food Bank: $30,000 · OtherSHARE Food BankFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $22,500 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONSalvation Army: $20,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $15,000 · Other+21 more: $94,000 · Other+21 moreMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $54,500 · Food & NutritionMETROPOLITAN AREA …Philabundance: $32,500 · Food & NutritionPhilabundance+1 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $22,500 · EducationTRUSTEES O…TRINITY COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationTRINITY CO…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $8,500 · EducationTHOMAS JEF…THE GRAYSON SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationTHE GRAYSO…BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15,000 · Human ServicesMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · HealthTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentPENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT: $7,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$351,500Food & Nutrition$88,500Education$51,000Human Services$24,500Health$21,000Youth Development$11,000Crime & Legal$7,500

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN AREA NEIGHBORHOOD NUTRITION ALLIANCE: $54,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPhilabundance: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdoption Center: $30,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMATTIE N DIXON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GRAYSON SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHYY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTNUT HILL MEALS ON WHEELS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BRAIN ANEURYSM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission: $1,000 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.
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Find your warmest path to Margaret G Jacobs Charitable Trust 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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $170k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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