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· Private foundation
RICHARD & MARY JACOBSON
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$90k
Granted FY2024
13
Grants
8
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Education$190kHousing & Shelter$48kArts & Culture$30kCrime & Legal$24kPublic Benefit$15kCivil Rights$9kYouth Development$500Other$157k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
sisters
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 13 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY$25,000
- HOPE THROUGH EDUCATION$15,000
- OAK KNOLL SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD$10,000
- MAGNIFICAT HOME INC$7,000
- FRIENDS OF HARVARD FIELD HOCKEY$5,000
- MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY$5,000
- CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE$5,000
- FOUNDATION OF THE OLD GUARD$5,000
- THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM$5,000
- OHR TORAH STONE$5,000
- EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$2,000
- ASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS$500
- SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY$500
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$446k · 12 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
3
Total granted
$446k
$16k
Still filing today
58%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureCrime & LegalCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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
- CHCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +21%
- HTHOPE THROUGH EDUCATION4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +845%
THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- SEST ELIZABETH'S CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AOASSOICATION OF THE US ARMYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- COCOMMUNITY OF THE FRANCISCAN FRIARSone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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House of Hope International
Our mission is the integration of women and children into society, transformed through the power of healing and complete discipleship and vocational training within a safe, loving, and serving community. our vision is to see women decide…
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Aquinas Classical Academy
Aquinas Classical Academy is an independent high school, obedient to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church.
Education
3
Mater Dei Apostolate
To provide higher education preperation with a higher purpose: union with god.
Education
4
African Christian University
Establishing Schools in Africa
Education
5
New Hope Mission
Offering christian education degree and non-degree programs to prision inmates.
Unclassified
6
Operation Hope Prison Ministry Inc
Mentoring ex offenders
Human Services
7
Hope of the World
Evangelism & outreach
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8
Only Hope Prison Ministries
To preach the gospel and equip christ-honoring chaplains and volunteers nationwide to evangelize and disciple men who are or have been incarcerated.
Crime & Legal
9
His House Outreach Ministries Inc
We equip and empower women transitioning out of incarceration by providing stable employment and housing, life skills, and mentors to walk alongside them. Through this, we inspire hope, disrupt cycles of incarceration, and restore families.
Housing & Shelter
10
Hope Academy of Charlotte Inc
Christ-centered, college preparatory, academic program.
Education
11
Clairvaux Institute
Gregory the great academy is a boarding school in the catholic tradition for boys in grades 9-12 that strives to renew the minds of its students in the truth, goodness and beauty of tradition.
Arts & Culture
12
Catholic Housing Initiatives Inc
Catholic Housing Initiative's mission is to provide an affordable housing option for low-income independent seniors.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Through Education - and the most unlike its peers is Assumption College for Sisters. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$190,000Other$156,500Housing & Shelter$48,000Arts & Culture$30,000Crime & Legal$24,000Public Benefit$15,000Civil Rights$9,000Youth Development$500
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.
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.
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation RICHARD & MARY JACOBSON 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
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- Assumption College for Sisters — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MAGNIFICAT HOME INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 260473833 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MAGNIFICAT HOME INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Richard & Mary Jacobson?
Find your warmest path to Richard & Mary Jacobson through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines