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Stacy R Jacobs 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| The Invictus Fund NV | $300,000 |
| Ole Health Foundation | $135,000 |
| The Population Council Inc | $15,000 |
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $15,000 |
| Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition | $13,937 |
| Athenaeum Music Arts Library | $11,000 |
| East Bay Agency for Children | $8,000 |
| Curebound | $5,250 |
| Uplift Youth Foundation | $5,206 |
| Rooftop Films | $5,154 |
| NAPA VALLEY VINTNERS | $4,300 |
| If When How | $1,500 |
| Deaf Counseling AdvocacyReferral Ag | $1,055 |
| RUTHERFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k 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
- NVNapa Valley Vintners3× · 2017–2024 · $529k · revenue +1%
- IDInfact DBA Corporate Accountability5× · 2018–2023 · $285k · revenue +24%
- TATHEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE7× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- PSPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONALone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -31%
- FLFamily Life Resource Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +31%
- JAJameson Animal Rescue Ranchone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -24%
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Calnonprofits, the leading policy voice for california's nonprofit sector, focuses on advocacy, education, and research to build a more powerful and politically engaged nonprofit network across california.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Sawa-Someone a World Away. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 40 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 OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Vintners ↗
- Who funds THE INVICTUS FUND NV ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Family Life Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN BAND AND ORCHESTRA PARENTS ↗
- Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MIJENTE SUPPORT COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOFTOP FILMS INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MIND ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALBOA ART CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAWA-SOMEONE A WORLD AWAY ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds di Rosa Preserve ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ST HELENA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Robert Lee Hudson Foundation · Tides Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community 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 Stacy R Jacobs 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.
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% 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.
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