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Rockler Jackson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$1.9MHealth$501kInternational$74kReligion$37kEducation$22kArts & Culture$3kYouth Development$2kEnvironment$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$650,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC$1,000,000
MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LLC$650,000
THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION$500,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM: $500 → 5%WEISMAN ART MUSEUM: $1k → 11%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE UPPER MIDWEST: $250 → 14%THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION: $500k → 7%MALOOF FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JEWISH NATIONAL FUND: $10k → 6%LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%SUPER HERO KIDS FOUNDATOIN: $2k → 10%UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL: $250 → 14%THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC: $25k → 9%SARASOTA BALLET: $250 → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL: $1k → 14%AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $64k → 14%JEWISH CONGREGATION OF VENICE: $34k → 9%MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $9k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC: $1.0M → 9%CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT: $150 → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA: $100k → 9%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $4k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $50k → 9%MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LLC: $650k → 11%MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LLC: $100k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $21k → 11%SABES JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 11%GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $10k → 11%MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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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Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas

As the voice of the jewish community, to protect jewish interests & promote jewish ideals.

4
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Rodel Institute

The rodel institute is a nonpartisan center for leadership and intellectual growth. rodel helps america's most promising leaders reach their full potential as public servants, deepen their commitment to democracy and the rule of law,…

Philanthropy
7
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
8
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

9
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
10
The Board of Jewish Education

To provide early childhood and jewish education to the community.

Education
11
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
12
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation and the most unlike its peers is The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $1,150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC+3 more — $44,160 · PhilanthropyMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LLC — $750,000 · OtherMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…JEWISH CONGREGATION OF VENICE INC — $33,730 · Other+7 more — $11,100 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $500,000 · HealthTHE ASSOCIATION FOR F…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $64,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $10,000 · International+1 more — $250 · InternationalMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $21,000 · EducationAMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL — $1,000 · Arts & CultureMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $500 · Arts & CultureSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $250 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $250 · Arts & CultureCenter of the American Experiment — $150 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,194,160Other$794,830Health$501,000International$74,250Education$21,000Arts & Culture$2,000Youth Development$150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC — $1,150,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION — $500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $64,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF SARASOTA-MANATEE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION — $9,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarasota Ballet of Florida Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · 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 organization Rockler Jackson Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

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    How do I get to Rockler Jackson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rockler Jackson 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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