· Public charity
The Jackson Laboratory
The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational.
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.
The 6 grants below total $222,295 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,015,996 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,793,701 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF BAR HARBOR | $122,832 |
| CITY OF ELLSWORTH | $58,463 |
| INVEST IN MAINE'S FUTURE | $16,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $10,000 |
| SACRAMENTO POLICE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS (NACD) | $7,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- CSCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC4× · 2020–2023 · $102k · revenue +116%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +40%
- NANATIONAL ASSOC FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- HGHUMAN GENOME ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONALone grant, 2022 · $15k
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +29%- HOHEART OF MAINE UNITED WAYone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +22%
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.
Gsa serves an international community of scientists who use genetics to make new discoveries and improve lives. we advance biological research by supporting professional development of scientists, by communicating advances and fostering…
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.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…
The federation of american societies for experimental biology (faseb) advances health and welfare by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to its member societies and collaborative advocacy.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…
To promote and advance the microbial sciences
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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…
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The nber conducts unbiased, non-partisan economic research and communicates the findings of that research to academic researchers, policy-makers, and business professionals. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy and the most unlike its peers is Sacramento Police Foundation Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 22 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 CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE FAIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JESUP MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOC FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS ↗
- Who funds Translational Research Cancer Cente ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS ↗
- Who funds Mt Desert Island YMCA ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ACADIA ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Jackson Laboratory 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.
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- American Society of Human Genetics — 10% 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.