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The Jake Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$834k
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MEnvironment$1.0MArts & Culture$893kAnimals$288kPhilanthropy$101kCivil Rights$68kYouth Development$68kInternational$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $635k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$75,000
GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA$30,000
SMITH COLLEGE$25,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$25,000
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY$25,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$20,000
SIERRA CLUB$20,000
NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL NRDC$20,000
RAINFOREST FOUNDATION$15,000
WILDERNESS LAND TRUST$15,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$15,000
HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE$15,000
WILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION$15,000
GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%NEW FUTURES: $1k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 53 repeat orgs$321k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
21

Total granted

$4.3M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+33%

Still filing today

72%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $975k · revenue +31%
  • WD
    WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $773k · revenue +8%
  • Williams College
    7× · 2018–2025 · $650k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • WA
    WILLIAMS ALUMNI FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $45k
  • OD
    OCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • ST
    Save the Whales
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
10
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
11
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Human Rights Action Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

72 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. 72 of the 96 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/72
Grantees still filing
43/72
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $975,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGEWilliams College: $650,000 · EducationWilliams CollegeBowdoin College: $145,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeMARET SCHOOL INC: $117,500 · EducationMARET SCHOOL INC+5 more: $112,000 · Education+5 moreTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $545,000 · OtherTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSO…WILLIAMS ALUMNI FUND: $45,000 · Other+49 more: $647,045 · Other+49 moreWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $772,750 · Arts & CultureWASHINGTON DRAMA SOC…Sarasota Opera Association Inc: $42,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $22,200 · Arts & CultureWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $48,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $25,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $25,000 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST: $25,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests: $20,000 · Environment+9 more: $71,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $56,000 · AnimalsTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 · AnimalsMUTTVILLE: $20,000 · AnimalsFURKIDS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $15,000 · AnimalsENDANGERED SPECIES INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 · AnimalsROCKETDOGRESCUE: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · AnimalsHUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTER: $68,000 · Civil RightsGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $57,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,999,500Other$1,237,045Arts & Culture$876,950Environment$329,000Animals$171,000Civil Rights$68,000Philanthropy$58,500

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $975,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC: $772,750 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWilliams College: $650,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $545,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBowdoin College: $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMARET SCHOOL INC: $117,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTER: $68,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $57,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $56,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSarasota Opera Association Inc: $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $33,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFURKIDS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Forests: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $17,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATHENS-OCONEE CASA INCORPORATED: $17,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHISPANOLA HEALTH PARTNERS: $17,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPOLARIS PROJECT: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDANGERED SPECIES INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetROCKETDOGRESCUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe Rumson Country Day School: $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN DEFENDERS ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Sarasota Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Whales: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
  • Who funds OSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FURKIDS INC ↗

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.

Ibm International Fou…The Morris and Gwendo…AbbVie FoundationClif Family FoundationGulf Coast Community …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Greater Washington Co…Morgan Stanley Global…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Verizon FoundationNational Philanthropi…
Ibm International FoundationNY15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Jake Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jake Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Rock Creek Conservancy Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • All Faiths Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Jake Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Jake Foundation Inc 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 96 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home