· Private foundation
The Jacks Family Foundation
To provide education and financial support to ministries, churches, schools, and environmental enterprises worldwide.
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 $10k17 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRU | $44,500 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $38,000 |
| GLOBAL SCHOOL OF SPORTS MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| ONE CHALLENGE | $25,400 |
| AMERICAN BETHEL MISSION | $25,000 |
| PLUR LIFE MINISTRIES DBA ENGAGE TO | $11,000 |
| MOUNT HERMON | $11,000 |
| SCOTT LIVELY MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| SPORT OUTREACH INSTITUTE | $9,700 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $8,800 |
| NURSING HOME MINISTRIES INC | $7,700 |
| RELATIONSHIP RESOURCES INC | $7,700 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $6,000 |
| 911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
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 (FY19–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
43 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- PSPROVIDENCE SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $619k · revenue +88%
- TPTURNING POINT USA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $268k · revenue +107%
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $109k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
- PSPROVIDENCE SANTA BARBARA CHRISTIANone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
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 mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Pacific school of religion prepares a diverse cadre of spiritually rooted leaders with the vision, resilience, and skill to create a world where all can thrive. grounded in the rigorous study and faithful practice of progressive christian…
To foster global peace and cooperation through the work of interreligious and intercultural dialogue. the dialogue institute teaches religious, civic, and academic leaders the skills of respectfull dialogue and critical thinking,…
Summit ministries is an educational christian ministry with the purpose of equipping tomorrow's servant leaders to analyze competing worldviews and champion the christian faith, inspiring each one to love god with all his heart, soul,…
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
Pacific union college is a seventh-day adventist learning community offering an excellent christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 78 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 PROVIDENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILD FARMLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global School of Sports Ministry ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds CRU INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Child Evangelism Fellowship Of Southern California Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN EUROPEAN BETHEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds 911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Plur Life Ministries ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds DIVERSIFIED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Jacks Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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