Does The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Family Charitable Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.

The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr

The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr at a glance

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The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr

Q: What does The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (48%), Public Safety & Disaster (23%), Religion (8%).

Q: Who are The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Global Sisterhood Inc ($235k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($139k), Partners in Development Incorporated ($43k).

Q: Does The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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.

$145k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$134k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$305kPublic Safety & Disaster$147kReligion$49kEducation$25kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$15kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $134k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$863k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GLOBAL SISTERHOOD	$134,000
PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT INC	$10,000
ST BRENDAN EPISOCAL CHURCH	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$611k · 45 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$611k

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+23%

Still filing today

73%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
6× · 2018–2023 · $139k · revenue +9%
GP
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
7× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +91%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
5× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue +76%

Funded once

AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2017 · $6k
United States Association for UNHCRgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +67%
JH
JOHNS HOPKINS
one grant, 2017 · $2k

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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

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

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Croatian Relief Services 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

45 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. 45 of the 84 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

35/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$376,049Human Services$145,500International$68,591Food & Nutrition$21,940Education$15,905Environment$3,925Health$2,570

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.

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.

Green Family Charitable FoundationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Family Charitable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dr Jack and Libby Jacobs Family Foundation John F Jacobs Jr. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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