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The Jacobson Family Foundation at a glance

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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
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,600,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$423k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$1,600,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EMMY'S ACADEMY: $3k → 13%MUST MINISTRIES: $15k → 8%EMMYS ACADEMY: $1k → 8%BACK PACK BLESSINGS INC: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 89% of The Jacobson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Jacobson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$1.0M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
60%

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%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WL
    Wellspring Living Inc
    3× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +78%
  • EA
    EMMYS ACADEMY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $4k · revenue +19%
  • TH
    THE HOPE CENTER INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • WB
    Walton Band Parents Association Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -48%
  • MM
    Must Ministries Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +63%
  • PN
    Purr Nation Cat Alliance Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
At the Well Ministries

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…

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2
Tender Life Maternity Home

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.

Housing & Shelter
3
Mighty Moms

The mission of Mighty Moms is to nurture hungry children to success.

Human Services
4
Mercy House Ministries Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
For the Children of Milton Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
6
Bella House Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
8
Womens Pregnancy Center of Matagorda County Inc

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.

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9
Whispering Hope Womens Res and Preg Ctr

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.

Human Services
10
Mde School of East Cobb Inc

Provide a loving environment for all children with delayed communication and language processing skills while keeping a 4-to-1 teacher-to-student ratio.

Education
11
Hope Medical

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…

Human Services
12
The Wesley Foundation of the University of Georgia Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University: $1,600,000 · EducationVanderbilt University+1 more: $500 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY: $1,001,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITY+10 more: $20,500 · OtherWalton Band Parents Association Inc: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMust Ministries Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesEMMYS ACADEMY: $3,500 · Human ServicesBACK PACK BLESSINGS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 82 KENYA INC: $15,000 · InternationalWellspring Living Inc: $7,000 · ReligionPurr Nation Cat Alliance Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Education$1,600,500Other$1,021,500Arts & Culture$51,000Human Services$19,500International$15,000Religion$7,000Animals$5,000Philanthropy$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jacobson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jacobson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jacobson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jacobson Family 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 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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