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Ralph & Adolph Jacobs Foundation at a glance

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Ralph & Adolph 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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$44kEducation$32kArts & Culture$30kFood & Nutrition$27kHealth$21kHousing & Shelter$18kCivil Rights$15kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$283k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$4,500
CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$4,500
Individual grant recipient$4,000
ST MARY'S BOYS HOME$3,500
COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL$3,500
PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION$3,500
UNITE OREGON$3,500
NW HOUSING ALTERNATIVES$3,500
PROFILE THEATER$3,500
LOAVES & FISHES$3,500
CLACKAMAS REPERTORY THEATRE$3,500
PARROTT CREEK FAMILY SERV$3,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%ST MARY'S BOYS HOME: $4k → 8%OUTGROWING HUNGER: $3k → 8%PROFILE THEATER: $4k → 12%NORTH COAST LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $6k → 13%ST MARY'S BOYS HOME: $3k → 8%PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 12%ST MARY'S BOYS HOME: $3k → 8%CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $5k → 8%PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $4k → 8%PROFILE THEATER: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $4k → 8%PROFILE THEATER: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS VOLNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $4k → 8%SISTERS OF THE ROAD CAFE: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS HISTORICAL SOC: $4k → 8%LOAVES & FISHES: $4k → 12%CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $4k → 8%PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 12%PARROTT CREEK FAMILY SERV: $4k → 8%LOAVES & FISHES: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS HISTORICAL SOC: $4k → 8%CLACKAMAS HISTORICAL SOC: $4k → 8%LOAVES & FISHES: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS REPERTORY THEATRE: $4k → 8%CLACKAMAS HISTORICAL SOC: $4k → 8%UNITE OREGON: $4k → 12%CLACKAMAS HISTORICAL SOC: $4k → 8%OUTGROWING HUNGER: $3k → 12%PARROTT CREEK FAMILY SERV: $3k → 8%OUTGROWING HUNGER: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS REPERTORY THEATRE: $3k → 8%UNITE OREGON: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS REPERTORY THEATRE: $3k → 8%UNITE OREGON: $3k → 12%PARROTT CREEK FAMILY SERV: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $4k → 12%PARROTT CREEK FAMILY SERV: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $3k → 12%CLACKAMAS REPERTORY THEATRE: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $3k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 8%PROFILE THEATER: $3k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 8%SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 8%NW HOUSING ALTERNATIVES: $4k → 8%SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 12%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$204k · 13 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$204k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-22%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $21k
  • CV
    CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue -33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2021–2025 · $18k

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH COAST LAND CONSERVATION TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • SO
    SISTERS OF THE ROAD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -22%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $20,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOAVES & FISHES: $15,500 · OtherLOAVES & FISHESUNITE OREGON: $15,000 · OtherUNITE OREGONPARROTT CREEK FAMILY SERV: $15,000 · OtherPARROTT CREEK FAMILY SERVPROFILE THEATER: $15,000 · OtherPROFILE THEATERST MARY'S BOYS HOME: $14,500 · OtherST MARY'S BOYS HOMEPORTLAND RESCUE MISSION: $14,500 · OtherPORTLAND RESCUE MISSIONNORTH COAST LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,500 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherCLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $20,500 · HealthCLACKAMAS …Clackamas Repertory Theatre: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES: $14,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $14,500 · EducationOutgrowing Hunger: $11,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$136,500Health$20,500Arts & Culture$15,000Housing & Shelter$14,500Education$14,500Food & Nutrition$11,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE: $20,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetClackamas Repertory Theatre: $15,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $14,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOutgrowing Hunger: $11,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 CLACKAMAS VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds Clackamas Repertory Theatre ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HOUSING ALTERNATIVES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Outgrowing Hunger ↗
  • Who funds SISTERS OF THE ROAD INC ↗

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 Jackson FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Oregon Community …The Collins FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Jackson FoundationWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jackson Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ralph & Adolph Jacobs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph & Adolph Jacobs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Outgrowing Hunger: 9% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School: 7% of income from government
  • Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine: 7% of income from government
  • Northwest Housing Alternatives: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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How do I get to Ralph & Adolph Jacobs Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ralph & Adolph 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 15 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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