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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $1,600,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 89% of The Jacobson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- WLWellspring Living Inc3× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +78%
- EAEMMYS ACADEMY2× · 2019–2021 · $4k · revenue +19%
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- WBWalton Band Parents Association Incone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -48%
- MMMust Ministries Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +63%
- P8PROJECT 82one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To provide direction and assistance for those facing unplanned pregnancies. the organization provides resource information that gives hope to those who may have been leaning toward termination of pregnancy but are open to alternative…
Tender Life is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help and hope for women during their pregnancies and beyond.
The mission of Mighty Moms is to nurture hungry children to success.
To equip and empower single, pregnant women with a safe, nurturing home, pregancy care, life skills training and Christian discipleship to establish a sold foundation for two lives.
For The Children of Milton, Inc mission is to foster hope by providing a safe, nurturing home for children, supporting families with vital resources, and strengthening our community through compassionate care, connection, and service.
The Bella House is a maternity home that answers the call to provide for a homeless woman and her baby at a beautiful and vulnerable moment in each of their lives. We seek to empower women to become strong and caring women, mothers, and…
Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)
Provides free pregnancy testing, limited ultrasound imaging, and lay counseling. Provides free family and life skills training. Provided free clothing & supplies for birth through toddler children.
Whispering Hope provides information, education, and assistance for anyone experiencing a crisis pregnancy. Free medical testing, options education, and parenting skills training are provided at no cost.
Provide a loving environment for all children with delayed communication and language processing skills while keeping a 4-to-1 teacher-to-student ratio.
Hope Medical of Washington is a faith-based, non-profit community medical clinic providing compassionate, evidence-based health care services to empower people to make informed decisions. We offer free, confidential services including free…
The Foundations purpose is for Methodist outreach to students at the University of Georgia even those who do not identify as Methodist. The Foundation operates a student center and carries out its primary activities: weekly services of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Purr Nation Cat Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Walton Band Parents Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Must Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 82 KENYA INC ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Living Inc ↗
- Who funds Purr Nation Cat Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMYS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BACK PACK BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds WALTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST COBB THEATRICAL INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE ON DELK INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Bethel Elementary School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA 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 · 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 Jacobson 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.
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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