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PD Jackson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$457k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$497kEducation$398kHousing & Shelter$178kYouth Development$163kCrime & Legal$135kHuman Services$127kHealth$101kAnimals$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$7,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Montana Foundation$125,000
Flathead Warming Center$75,000
Glacier National Park Conservancy$50,000
Center Restorative Youth Justice$25,000
Ecology Project International$10,000
Friends of the Children - Western M$10,000
The Sarara Foundation$10,000
Vital Ground Foundation$10,000
WILD Foundation$10,000
Noah's Arc Foundation$10,000
Home ReSource$10,000
American Red Cross$10,000
Five Valleys Land Trust$10,000
Unreserved$10,000
Nature Conservancy of Virginia$7,500
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 (FY18–24, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Center Restorative Youth Justice: $30k → 11%SIMPLY THE BASICS: $1k → 10%Miriam's Kitchen Inc: $8k → 14%ONE SPIRIT: $40k → 14%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $25k → 11%GIVE POWER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%People Assisting The Homeless: $5k → 14%ONE SPIRIT: $10k → 14%Center Restorative Youth Justice: $25k → 11%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $2k → 9%One Spirit: $5k → 14%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $20k → 11%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $2k → 9%YOUTH HOMES: $20k → 9%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTIC: $20k → 11%Youth Homes: $10k → 9%CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $15k → 11%STEP ONE SCHOOL: $2k → 9%Step One School: $1k → 9%Food for Others Inc: $5k → 6%ECHO INC: $5k → 6%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

WA
MT
NY
OR
SD
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NM
DC
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 34 repeat orgs$582k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
44

Total granted

$1.3M
$469k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+18%

Still filing today

76%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $193k · revenue +89%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $183k · revenue +35%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $135k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Montana
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • BG
    Boys Girls Club of Flathead
    one grant, 2023 · $40k
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD R
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
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
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
2
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
3
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
4
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
5
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
6
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
7
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
8
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
12
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Santa Barbara County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers. 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

59 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. 59 of the 95 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
36/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · OtherTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INCUniversity of Montana: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of MontanaBoys Girls Club of Flathead: $40,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club of FlatheadBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD R: $40,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RU OF M FOUNDATION DBA FLATHEAD BIOL: $35,416 · OtherU OF M FOUNDATION DBA FLATHEAD BIOLBOYS GILRS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD R: $35,000 · OtherBOYS GILRS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · Other+49 more: $307,500 · Other+49 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $182,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF…Cold Spring School Foundation: $42,000 · EducationCold Spring Schoo…OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $25,000 · EducationOMEGA INSTITUTE F…PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $24,000 · EducationPIEDMONT EDUCATIO…FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $13,000 · EducationCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $135,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR RESTOR…ONE SPIRIT: $55,000 · Human ServicesONE SPIRITYOUTH HOMES: $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH HOMESGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $34,500 · Human Services+7 moreFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentFIVE VALLEYS L…FLATHEAD LAKERS INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentFLATHEAD LAKER…Earth Island Institute Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island I…SARARA INSTITUTE: $10,000 · EnvironmentECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 · EnvironmentGLACIER INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentHOME RESOURCE INC: $10,000 · Environment+3 more: $13,000 · EnvironmentGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $193,200 · Recreation & SportsGLACIER NATI…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIR…FLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC: $145,000 · Housing & ShelterFLATHEAD …Shelter House Inc: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterShelter H…+2 more: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $31,000 · HealthTHE LIV PROJECT: $20,000 · HealthStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $5,000 · Health
Other$632,916Education$296,500Human Services$284,500Environment$248,000Recreation & Sports$213,200Housing & Shelter$160,000Health$56,000

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 budgetGLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $193,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $182,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFLATHEAD WARMING CENTER INC: $145,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetCENTER FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE: $135,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VITAL GROUND FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFLATHEAD LAKERS INC: $65,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetONE SPIRIT: $55,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetYOUTH HOMES: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCold Spring School Foundation: $42,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $31,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION AND LAKE COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LIV PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetWHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARARA INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNOAHS ARC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetECOLOGY PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLACIER INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOME RESOURCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShelter House Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE ARTS AND CULTURES FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MIDDLE SCHOOL: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCragmont School PTA: $7,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetStep One School: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetExtrafood: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThunderheart Media Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPATH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStanding Together to End Sexual Assault: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR OTHERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECHO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Waves Coalition: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS CLUB: $4,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $4,000 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.

First Interstate Banc…Hutton Foundation Dba…Montana Community Fou…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Williams-Corbett Foun…Whitefish Community F…Santa Barbara Foundat…M J Murdock Charitabl…Tony and Kyra Rogers …June G Outhwaite Char…The Angora Ridge Foun…The Kirby-Jones Found…
First Interstate BancSystem Foundation IncMT26.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Santa Barbara Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Tony and Kyra Rogers Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Angora Ridge Foundation · The Kirby-Jones 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 PD Jackson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from PD Jackson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to PD Jackson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to PD Jackson Family 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 95 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.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home