· Private foundation
The JEM Project
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $634k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| the Center for Reproductive Rights inc | $500,000 |
| San Diego Humane Society & SPCA San Diego | $200,000 |
| SBCS Corporation | $125,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Diego County | $105,000 |
| Giants Community Fund | $100,000 |
| San Diego Center for Children | $100,000 |
| Nutured by Nature | $100,000 |
| Lions Tigers and Bears | $99,336 |
| Home Start Inc | $85,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Raptor Program | $84,500 |
| Children's Miracle Network | $79,180 |
| La Maestra Family Clinic INC | $77,700 |
| THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION (Birch Aquarium) | $75,000 |
| San Diego Children's Discovery Museum | $75,000 |
| THE SAN MARCOS PROMISE DBA PROJECT NEXT | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 12 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k 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
CHARITY GLOBAL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +2%- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +55% · 46% of their budget
- TIThe Isabella Santos Foundation4× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +48%
Funded once
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +28%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $200k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INCone grant, 2022 · $199k · revenue -41%
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.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
SPOT Saving Pets One at a Time is a leading San Diego County all-volunteer rescue organization whose main focus is to save dogs and cats in shelters who are at risk of euthanization and to help other dogs and cats in need as well. In…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
196 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 196 of the 253 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAPTOR PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds The Isabella Santos Foundation ↗
- Who funds Nurtured by Nature ↗
- Who funds HOME START INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS ↗
- Who funds LA MAESTRA FAMILY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHENS FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Camp Canaan ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL ROOTS FARM ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE OF THE PEE DEE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds SBCS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PILGRIMS INN INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS HOMES OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds REEF CHECK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEFEND THE FATHERLESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION FOR THE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S KITCHEN ↗
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: David C Copley Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
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 JEM Project 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.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Complete Player Charity Ltd — 6% of income from government
- Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon — 5% of income from government
- Exceptional Care for Children — 0% 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.
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