· Private foundation
Richard & Mary Jacobson Private Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| OAK KNOLL SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE | $9,500 |
| MAGNIFICAT HOME INC | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION OF THE OLD GUARD | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HARVARD FIELD HOCKEY | $5,000 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $5,000 |
| THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| MDI BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | $5,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $2,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY | $1,000 |
| ASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of your 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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CHCHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +64%
The Petey Greene Program Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +127%- CMCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +4%
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.
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.
Yeshivat maharat is the first institution to train and ordain orthodox women as clergy, preparing students for the rabbinate through an innovative curriculum focused on depth of scholarship in jewish law, pastoral skills, and leadership…
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…
Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…
Alpha and Omega Ministries seeks to provide a faithful and accurate response to the many challenges presented to the Christian Church in the modern world. Based firmly upon an unflinching commitment to the Bible as the Word of God and to…
Post High School Education
See schedule oour 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…
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
The ruth institute promotes marriage as a fundamental, lifelong union between a man and a woman. the institute advocates collaboration and cooperation between women and men. basing the message on high quality scientific research, the…
Equip women and men to be ministers and messengers of God's mission of reconciliation through academic excellence, personal transformation, and leadership development.
Promoting study of Mishnah and other Jewish texts
Bible and ministry education programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Hope Academy 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.
8 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. 8 of the 18 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 CHICAGO HOPE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MAGNIFICAT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE OLD GUARD INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION COLLEGE FOR SISTERS ↗
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.
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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 Richard & Mary Jacobson Private Foundation Inc 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.
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
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.