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The Aline and Leo Jacobsohn Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Aline and Leo Jacobsohn Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$193kCivil Rights$136kCrime & Legal$45kHuman Services$31kReligion$13kPhilanthropy$3kEducation$2kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMPACT ISRAEL$11,000
JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS$10,000
HIAS$9,300
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$7,500
EQUAL JUSTICE INIATIVE$5,000
GIVE TO COLOMBIA INC$5,000
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$5,000
LAMBDA LEGAL$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$4,000
JEWISH FOUNDERS NETWORK$2,000
RESPECT ABILITY$1,800
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RESPECTABILITY: $5k → 6%RESPECTABILITY: $10k → 8%RESPECTABILITY: $2k → 6%RESPECTABILITY: $10k → 8%RESPECTABILITY: $6k → 8%RESPECT ABILITY: $2k → 8%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 12 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$324k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+28%

Still filing today

92%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • II
    IMPACTISRAEL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $77k · revenue +64%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $52k · revenue +94%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • WJ
    WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • SO
    SEEDS OF PEACE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -51%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +37%
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
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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4
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Jlens

Jlens empowers investors to align their capital with jewish values and advocates for jewish communal priorities in the corporate arena. (see sch. o)jlens promotes investing through a jewish lens and aims to increase the jewish community's…

Religion
7
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
8
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
9
Parliamentarians for Global Action

Parliamentarians for global action (pga) is a non-partisan ngo network of legislators from all regions of the world acting in their individual capacity to advocate for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law; peace and human security;…

International
10
Repair the World

Repair the world mobilizes jews and their communities to take action to pursue a more just world, igniting a lifelong commitment to service. we believe service in support of social change is vital to a flourishing jewish community and an…

Community Improvement
11
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
12
The International Institute On Race Equality and Human Rights

The international institute on race, equality and human rights contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights, through training, technical assistance, advocacy, and strategic litigation conducted at the regional and international…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Palm Beach County Food Bank 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

23 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. 23 of the 27 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACTISRAEL INC: $77,000 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INCHIAS INC: $52,400 · InternationalHIAS INCAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $43,800 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INCSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,000 · InternationalGIVE TO COLOMBIA INC: $10,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE FLORIDA: $48,000 · OtherANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE FL…WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS: $30,000 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESSJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $10,000 · OtherJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC…+10 more: $8,000 · Other+10 moreEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $41,800 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATI…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMIT…LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $13,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE &…DISABILITY BELONGS: $34,800 · Human ServicesDISABILIT…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $12,500 · ReligionJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $2,600 · PhilanthropySANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Crime & Legal
International$194,200Other$96,000Civil Rights$84,800Human Services$34,800Religion$12,500Philanthropy$2,600Crime & Legal$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC: $77,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $52,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $43,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $41,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS: $34,800 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE TO COLOMBIA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $2,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOODHALL SCHOOL INC: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES E SMITH JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $100 over 1y, 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Aline and Leo Jacobsohn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Aline and Leo Jacobsohn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report 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.

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 27 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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