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The Brad & Jill Jackson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Brad & Jill 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.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$755kReligion$90kPhilanthropy$75kInternational$50kCrime & Legal$25kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$530k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMP SPALDING$15,000
EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$15,000
EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$10,000
UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%CAMP SPALDING: $25k → 16%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BELLEVUE: $25k → 9%CAMP SPALDING: $15k → 16%EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%CAMP SPALDING: $15k → 16%EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%CAMP SPALDING: $10k → 16%EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5k → 9%MONA FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $275k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $150k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $100k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $24k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $12k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $9k → 9%UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $3k → 9%PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%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.
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.
$770k · 3 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$770k
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
-11%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • UC
    UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $672k · revenue +68%
  • CS
    Camp Spalding
    4× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +40%
  • EP
    EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -46%
  • MF
    MONA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -11%
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BELLEVUE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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2
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
3
Spruce Street School

Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
6
Browne Academy

The Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school preparing girls and boys in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for competitive secondary schools. The Academy is a diverse independent day school committed to…

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7
Northwest Montessori School

To provide an individualized learning environment, based on the principles of Dr. Maria Montessori, that is designed to help students become independent, life-long learners who are academically grounded and socially confident about their…

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
The Island School

The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.

Education
10
Pacific Northern Academy

To educate students to be exceptional learners and independent thinkers of vision, courage, and integrity.

—
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
Epiphany School

Epiphany school is an independent, co-educational day school, serving approximately 276 children from the greater seattle area, in grades pre-kindergarten through five. through innovative teaching in a caring and inclusive environment,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastside Preparatory School; the most unlike its peers is National Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $672,050 · EducationUNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOLSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATIONEASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $33,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCamp Spalding: $65,000 · ReligionMONA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BELLEVUE: $25,000 · OtherNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $25,000 · Crime & LegalPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$755,050Community Improvement$75,000Religion$65,000Philanthropy$50,000Other$25,000Crime & Legal$25,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL: $672,050 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Spalding: $65,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMONA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · 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
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 Brad & Jill Jackson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brad & Jill Jackson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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