· Private foundation
Richard O Jacobson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Build A Better Belmond | $200,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $13M · revenue +22%- ISIOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2023 · $13M · revenue +76% · 75% of their budget
PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +45% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- SUSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $4.5M · revenue +21%
- CPCREATIVE PINELLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2.5M · revenue +33%
- ISIOWA STATE BLUE RIBBON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
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.
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.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the iowa credit union league and guided by the credit union philosophy of "people helping people", the iowa credit union foundation (the foundation) works to champion financial well-being for…
The iowa 4-h foundation provides financial resources for youth development through 4-h.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
The iowa sports foundation (isf) mission is to provide sports, recreation, health and wellness opportunities for iowans of all abilities.
To deliver programs and to conduct research for the benefit of students, educators, emerging leaders and employers that expand their knowledge and enhance their individual responsibility and leadership skills.
Building iowa's values by recognizing and responding to significantchanges in iowa - those that fundamentally affect families and communities.
The foundation for the iowa city community school district connects the community with our schools to ensure every student has extraordinary learning experiences. together we empower teachers and district staff and inspire students to…
The iowa ffa foundation cultivates partnerships supporting agricultural education and also seeks and provides financial support to assist agricultural education organizations in accomplisihing their missions.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE PINELLAS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILD A BETTER BELMOND ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIPSIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARWATER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds BLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds World Food Prize 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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Deb & Bob Pulver Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Susan J Glazer Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Kyle J & Sharon Krause Family Foundation · Ita Group Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Henry G & Norma Peterson Charitable Tr · Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Richard O Jacobson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard O Jacobson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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