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Jacoby Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of JACOBY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $65,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY | $58,000 |
| ADAT ARI EL | $55,530 |
| CAMP RAMAH CALIFORNIA | $41,800 |
| BUILDERS OF JEWISH EDUCATION | $35,000 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| GANN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ADAT ARI EL- TORAH FUND | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAIMONIDES SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MASORTI FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| UNITED ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUES | $1,800 |
| VALLEY BETH SHALOM | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
31 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CRCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +59%
- BABANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +138%
- JFJEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- ZSZIEGLER SCHOOL OF RABBINICAL STUDIES AJUone grant, 2017 · $35k
- ZSZIEGLER SCHOOL OF RABBINIC STUDIESone grant, 2018 · $35k
- TSTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.
The abraham joshua heschel school is an independent jewish day school which includes students from a wide range of jewish backgrounds, practices and beliefs. (see schedule o for continuation)
Ihds utilizes a dual general and judaic studies curriculum. the judaic studies curriculum emphasizes the fundamentals of hebrew reading, writing and speaking, jewish history, holidays, jewish values, torah, the jewish life cycle, the land…
The yeshiva university high schools has as its educational mission to teach and perpetuate the values of torah and secular studies. see schedule o.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Wisdom without walls is a nonprofit, nondenominational, online learning community that hosts intimate conversations with the most prominent voices in contemporary jewish thought, fostering discussions without ideological barriers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milken Community School and the most unlike its peers is Bangladesh American Society of Muslim Aid for Huma. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HIDE AND SEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds BANGLADESH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MUSLIM AID FOR HUMA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PICO UNION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OHEL SARAH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY LTD ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · The Field Family Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Ernest and Doris Goodman Charitable Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · Alpert & Alpert Foundation · Ellie and Mark Lainer Family Foundation · Smotrich Family Foundation · Kenneth J and Marilynn J Friedman Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jacoby Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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