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The Jacobson 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,600,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$1,600,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 13
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$423k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations The Jacobson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$1.6M100%
FY20217$11k43%
FY20201$1k100%
FY201913$98k62%
FY20187$6k100%
FY20172$1.0Mn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$2.6MArts & Culture$52kReligion$23kInternational$15kHuman Services$7kAnimals$5kPhilanthropy$5kHealth$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vanderbilt University$1,600,00010%
Walton Band Parents Association Inc$50,00019%
Must Ministries Inc$15,00010%
Project 82 Kenya Inc$15,00021%
Wellspring Living Inc$7,00030%
Purr Nation Cat Alliance Inc$5,00015%
Emmys Academy$3,50021%
The Salvation Army$2,5003n/a
The Hope Center Inc$2,50030%
Auburn Heritage Association$1,0001n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of The Jacobson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Vanderbilt University$1,600,00010%
Walton Band Parents Association Inc$50,00019%
Must Ministries Inc$15,00010%
Project 82 Kenya Inc$15,00021%
Wellspring Living Inc$7,00030%
Purr Nation Cat Alliance Inc$5,00015%
Emmys Academy$3,50021%
The Salvation Army$2,5003n/a
The Hope Center Inc$2,50030%
Auburn Heritage Association$1,0001n/a
Table on Delk Inc$1,00011%
Catalyst Church Inc$1,0001n/a
Back Pack Blessings Inc$1,00011%
East Cobb Theatrical Inc$1,00011%
Walton High School Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Mt Bethel Elementary School Foundation Inc$50010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc$50010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jacobson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $1,600,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWalton Band Parents Association Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject 82 Kenya Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWellspring Living Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPurr Nation Cat Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetEmmys Academy: $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTable on Delk Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBack Pack Blessings Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEast Cobb Theatrical Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMt Bethel Elementary School Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Jacobson Family Foundation

How much does The Jacobson Family Foundation give?
The Jacobson Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,600,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Jacobson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (96%), Arts & Culture (2%), Religion (1%).
Who are The Jacobson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Vanderbilt University ($1.6M), Walton Band Parents Association Inc ($50k), Must Ministries Inc ($15k).
Does The Jacobson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jacobson Family Foundation 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 Jacobson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Jacobson Family Foundation based?
The Jacobson Family Foundation is based in GA.

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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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