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Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$177k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$250kEducation$238kHealth$182kPhilanthropy$123kRecreation & Sports$67kFood & Nutrition$40kHuman Services$27kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $115k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION$50,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$12,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE$8,333
UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND$7,500
UW-MADISON FOUNDATION$7,000
UNITED WAY OF MILWAUKEE WAUKESHA$6,000
MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM$5,000
MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$5,000
MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION$4,500
HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$4,000
UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY$4,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$3,000
TYKES AND TEENS$3,000
WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ICA FOOD SHELF: $2k → 11%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $2k → 8%SECOND WIND DREAMS: $500 → 13%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY CHILDREN SERVICES: $250 → 8%ICA FOOD SHELF: $2k → 11%CAMP BLUE SKIES: $1k → 10%SECOND WIND DREAMS: $500 → 13%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY CHILDREN SERVICES: $250 → 8%INREACH: $500 → 10%SECOND WIND DREAMS: $500 → 13%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%INREACH: $500 → 10%SECOND WIND DREAMS: $500 → 13%ICA FOOD SHELF: $1k → 11%SECOND WIND DREAMS: $500 → 13%THE CITY SCHOOL: $500 → 16%ICA FOOD SHELF: $750 → 11%THE CITY SCHOOL: $500 → 16%ICA FOOD SHELF: $500 → 11%THE CITY SCHOOL: $500 → 16%INREACH: $500 → 10%THE CITY SCHOOL: $500 → 16%ICA FOOD SHELF: $500 → 11%INREACH: $500 → 10%ICA FOOD SHELF: $500 → 11%INREACH: $500 → 10%ICA FOOD SHELF: $500 → 11%SECOND HELPINGS: $1k → 10%INREACH: $500 → 10%SECOND HELPINGS: $1k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $1k → 10%ENROOT: $500 → 8%ENROOT: $500 → 8%ENROOT: $500 → 8%ENROOT: $500 → 8%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $1k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $1k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $1k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $1k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $1k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WI: $500 → 17%THE RELATIVES: $1k → 10%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 17%MILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 17%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
MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$970k · 112 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

112 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112
43

Total granted

$970k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+39%

Still filing today

72%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +54%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +43%
  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHISAGO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUN
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • NS
    NORTHSTAR SEARCH AND RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +2%
  • FH
    Froedtert Hospital Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +172%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
5
University of Minnesota Foundation

A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.

Education
6
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Top Dog Foundation Inc. 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

115 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. 115 of the 167 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/115
Grantees still filing
84/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF MILWAUKEE WAUKESHA: $60,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MILWAUKEE WAUKESHARED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherRED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INCHARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $28,000 · OtherHARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTHMAYO FOUNDATION: $24,500 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIONUW FOUNDATION SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $21,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+86 more: $248,550 · Other+86 moreUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $68,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED PERFORMING ARTS F…MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $56,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHE…MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INCWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOU…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM …Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $16,666 · Arts & CultureHistoric Haymarket Milwa…+8 more: $21,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $56,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $42,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCO…THE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $26,500 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION …LYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · EducationLYNN UNIVERSITY INCTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $6,850 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $6,250 · Education+11 more: $36,350 · Education+11 moreUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · PhilanthropyAURORA HE…OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $12,250 · PhilanthropyOPEN HAND…RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyRIDGEVIEW…CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE…THE FRIENDS OF VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC: $4,500 · PhilanthropyISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $11,500 · HealthCONGREGATIONAL HOME INC: $9,500 · HealthHopeWay Foundation: $6,500 · HealthTYKES & TEENS INC: $6,500 · HealthPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $4,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $4,500 · HealthAUTISM UNITED INC: $4,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $3,000 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthCenter for Environmental Health: $2,500 · HealthCarolina Breast Friends Inc: $2,500 · Health+8 more: $8,750 · HealthHealing Hands of Joy: $8,000 · Human ServicesINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,750 · Human ServicesDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN OF THE HEART-GREATER LACROSSE AREA INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesInReach: $3,000 · Human ServicesSECOND WIND DREAMS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $2,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HELPINGS: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesThe City School Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $2,000 · Human ServicesENROOT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMILWAUKEE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,500 · Human Services+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $10,000 · EnvironmentLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $5,400 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $2,500 · Environment+1 more: $400 · Environment
Other$447,050Arts & Culture$237,666Education$184,450Philanthropy$88,250Health$66,750Human Services$41,750Environment$20,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $68,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $56,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $56,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $31,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $20,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $16,666 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HANDS FOUNDATION: $12,250 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC: $11,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetOSPREY VILLAGE INC: $11,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPOCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE: $11,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLYNN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONGREGATIONAL HOME INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $8,750 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHealing Hands of Joy: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $6,850 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC: $6,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHopeWay Foundation: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTYKES & TEENS INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $6,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pine School Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT TRUST: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREGIS UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN OF THE HEART-GREATER LACROSSE AREA INC: $5,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $5,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST STAGE MILWAUKEE: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Martin County: $4,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM UNITED INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMINNETONKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJourney 21 Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
  • Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds OSPREY VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
  • Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Healing Hands of Joy ↗
  • Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗

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.

Otto Bremer TrustBaird Foundation IncGreater Milwaukee Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Herbert H Kohl Charit…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Foundation for the Ca…Dalton-Brand Foundati…
Otto Bremer TrustMN26.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc

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 Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Bridges Homeward Inc: 77% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc: 14% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Community Rowing Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
  • Lynn University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Pine School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Richard G Jacobus Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Richard G Jacobus 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 167 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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