· Public charity
The Jernigan Foundation
Mission is to provide support to: 1) accredited public and parochial schools, colleges, and universities by providing funds to qualified educational institutions; 2) qualified charitable organizations, particularly those that care for and support individuals in need; 3) qualified churches and church missions; 4) foreign organizations…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $108,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $180,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $71,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEART FOR LEBANON | $23,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $21,176 |
| ATK INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM FIRM USA | $10,000 |
| FOURSQUARE MISSIONS INTERN | $9,074 |
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 (FY17–21, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +22%
- WTWASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTION2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +47%
- OPOPTIONS PREGNANCY CLINIC3× · 2017–2019 · $22k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -44%
- CLC3 LEADERSone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -10%
- THTHE HEART OF LEBANON INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +165%
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.
Seattle neighborhood group educates, organizes, and collaborates with residents, businesses, government entities and other organizations to create safe communities through equitable engagement, with a focus on underserved populations.…
Offer hope for a new life to young women and girls involved in domestic minor sex trafficking in the south king county area.
Shared hope international exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. we are leaders in a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness.
Network Beyond is a Christian organization serving vulnerable and under-resourced people. We focus on three areas: 1. Leadership development - equipping global leaders with biblically based training. 2. Compassion and justice - support for…
Pregnancy Choices is a Christian ministry caring for those touched by unplanned pregnancy by providing options and resources that promote life.
To grow disciples of jesus christ by ministering to and serving those in need while sharing god's hope, faith, and love, bringing them to a place of restoration and empowering them to become productive members of our society.
Partners with young people, families and the community to break the cycle of homelessness through outreach, housing, prevention, education and employment.
The mission of 3strands global foundation is to mobilize communities to combat human trafficking through prevention education and reintegration programs. we believe prevention changes everything. 3strands global foundation provides…
To empower all to create a safer community by providing safety, shelter, education, and transitional support for those who have been affected by intimate domestic and sexual violence, stalking and sex trafficking.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Family Life Learning and Counseling Center and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 31 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS PREGNANCY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ATK INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRONIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME ↗
- Who funds C3 LEADERS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FIRM USA ↗
- Who funds THE HEART OF LEBANON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RISE UP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Homeless Backpacks Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA ↗
- Who funds DRY TIKES AND WET WIPES ↗
- Who funds Sidewalk ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN ↗
- Who funds The Fathers Ranch Ministries ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Thurston County Economic Development Cou · The Norcliffe Foundation · North Thurston Education Foundation · School's Out Washington · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Jernigan 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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