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The Jackson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$2.5MEducation$1.8MHousing & Shelter$590kArts & Culture$537kHealth$390kCivil Rights$364kPhilanthropy$345kEnvironment$210kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $730k
$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDSAVERS$75,000
FRIENDS OF RICHMOND COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL$65,000
FAMILY LIFELINE$60,000
VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD$60,000
BETTER HOUSING COALITION$60,000
HUMANKIND$60,000
VIRGINIA CENTER FOR INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES$50,000
GREATER RICHMOND SCAN$50,000
GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS$50,000
YWCA OF RICHMOND$50,000
REESTABLISH RICHMOND$50,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND$50,000
SACRED HEART CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD$45,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE$45,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $25k → 6%HUMANKIND: $60k → 9%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $25k → 6%HUMANKIND: $60k → 9%FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER: $25k → 6%HUMANKIND: $55k → 9%HUMANKIND: $43k → 9%HUMANKIND: $43k → 9%HUMANKIND: $35k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $70k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $70k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $67k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $52k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $50k → 22%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 9%HUMANKIND: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $48k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $35k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $35k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $25k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $50k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35k → 9%REESTABLISH RICHMOND: $25k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $35k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $60k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $50k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $45k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $35k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $35k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 9%FAMILY LIFELINE: $25k → 22%CAPITAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.6M · 42 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
8

Total granted

$7.6M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-6%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • FO
    Friends of Richmond Community High School
    8× · 2018–2025 · $461k · revenue +53% · 38% of their budget
  • YR
    YWCA RICHMOND
    8× · 2018–2025 · $411k · revenue +161%
  • FL
    FAMILY LIFELINE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AC
    ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE VTCC
    one grant, 2018 · $33k
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF RICHMOND
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • CI
    CODEVA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -28%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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2
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
3
Richmond County Partnership for Children Inc

Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…

Education
4
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
5
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.

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6
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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7
ForRichmond

For Richmond convenes city wide events and presentations, prayer meetings and worship services to promote unity in the city of Richmond among Christians by building trusted relationships between churches and leaders, while doing good for…

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8
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
9
Greater Richmond Partnership Inc

GRP's mission is to aggressively generate economic opportunities that create quality jobs for residents in the region and increase the tax base for needed community services.

Public Benefit
10
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
11
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
12
Richmond Art Center

To be a catalyst in Richmond for learning and living through art.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Richmond Inc and the most unlike its peers is Full Circle Grief Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional & Trade Associ…Child-Focused ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…K-12 Schools and Educationa…Youth Sports & Activity Pro…Historic Preservation Organ…Regional Business & Profess…Social Support ServicesVirginia Advocacy Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr16%25%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr14%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr14%32%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
486/3,612

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YWCA RICHMOND — $410,700 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMONDFAMILY LIFELINE — $350,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LIFELINEPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $321,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FA…PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $205,000 · Human ServicesPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT …SHALOM FARMSINC — $145,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINCChildren's Home Society of Virginia — $75,000 · Human ServicesRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $75,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART CENTER INC — $335,000 · OtherSACRED HEART CENTER INCCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $325,000 · OtherCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINI…Individual grant recipient — $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRASP — $180,000 · OtherGRASPCHESTERFIELD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $115,000 · OtherROBINSON THEATER — $105,000 · OtherVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities — $235,000 · OtherVirginia Center for Inclusive CommunitiesVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN — $129,000 · OtherVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED — $315,000 · OtherVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC…RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED — $210,000 · OtherRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATEDJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $210,000 · OtherJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION+12 more — $545,400 · Other+12 moreFriends of Richmond Community High School — $461,000 · EducationFriends of Richmo…JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $320,000 · EducationJSARGEANT REYNOLD…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD — $200,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SC…Partnership for Housing Affordability — $115,000 · EducationPartnership for H…VIRGINIAFIRST — $55,000 · Education+2 more — $45,000 · EducationGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC — $340,000 · Crime & LegalGREATER R…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC — $285,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITI…VIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP — $42,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA …GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC — $291,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE — $265,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $8,685 · PhilanthropyTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $217,000 · Arts & CultureART 180 Inc — $115,000 · Arts & CultureROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBETTER HOUSING COALITION — $320,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,666,700Other$2,929,400Education$1,196,000Crime & Legal$667,000Philanthropy$564,685Arts & Culture$432,000Housing & Shelter$425,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFriends of Richmond Community High School — $461,000 over 8y, 38% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND — $410,700 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE — $350,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC — $340,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC — $335,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC — $325,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS — $321,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION — $320,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $320,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetVIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED — $315,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC — $291,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC — $285,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE — $265,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetVirginia Center for Inclusive Communities — $235,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM — $217,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetRICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED — $210,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION — $210,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $205,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD — $200,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC — $145,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetVOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN — $129,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetART 180 Inc — $115,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPartnership for Housing Affordability — $115,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND — $80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST — $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetChildren's Home Society of Virginia — $75,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER — $75,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetRE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC — $75,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetFULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER — $75,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER — $55,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetRICHMOND OPPORTUNITIES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetRICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK — $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetREADING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT — $45,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetVIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP — $42,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCODEVA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPodium RVA — $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCAPITAL CENTER OF VIRGINIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GREATER RICHMOND CHAMBER FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Friends of Richmond Community High School ↗
  • Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND SCAN - STOP CHILD ABUSE NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
  • Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA LEAGUE FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities ↗
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND HILL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR VIRGINIA'S CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ART 180 Inc ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for Housing Affordability ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds Children's Home Society of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds ROBINSON THEATER COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RE-ESTABLISH RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds FULL CIRCLE GRIEF CENTER ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIAFIRST ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK ↗
  • Who funds READING AND EDUCATION FOR ADULT DEVELOPMENT ↗

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.

Richmond Memorial Hea…Robins FoundationHerndon FoundationThe Pauley Family Fou…The Community Foundat…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Dominion Energy Chari…Carmax FoundationShelton H Short Jr Tr…The Mary Morton Parso…Bon Secours - Richmon…Robert G Cabell III a…
Richmond Memorial Health FoundationVA72.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Robins Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell 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 Jackson 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Jackson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jackson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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