· Private foundation
Steven and Catherine Jacob Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
84% of Steven and Catherine Jacob Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Steven and Catherine Jacob Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $150k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESENTATION HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| KQED INC | $50,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SAINT FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE | $5,000 |
| HAPPY HOLLOW FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YMCA CAMP SEA GULL | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 87% of Steven and Catherine Jacob Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 9%.
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 +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE7× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +135%- KIKQED INC2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +5%
- LPLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY6× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BCBELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORYone grant, 2025 · $10k
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%- MKMARTHA'S KITCHENone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Happy Hollow Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Brandenburg Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steven and Catherine Jacob Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven and Catherine Jacob Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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