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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…

$180k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
5
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Youth Development$153kInternational$92kEducation$65kArts & Culture$64kHealth$47kPhilanthropy$37kHousing & Shelter$30kHuman Services$27kOther$0
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $108,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $180,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREATER TRINITY CHRISTIAN LEARNING ACADEMY: $5k → 9%THE FATHER'S RANCH MINISTRIES: $3k → 17%GREATER TRINITY CHRISTIAN LEARNING ACADEMY: $3k → 9%NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE: $14k → 9%NORTHWEST FAMILY LIFE: $10k → 9%Dry Tikes and Wet WIPES: $5k → 9%OLYMPIA UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $5k → 9%SOUTH SOUND YMCA: $3k → 9%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$328k · 13 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$328k
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

69%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +22%
  • WT
    WASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +47%
  • OP
    OPTIONS PREGNANCY CLINIC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $22k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -44%
  • CL
    C3 LEADERS
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -10%
  • TH
    THE HEART OF LEBANON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +165%
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
Seattle Neighborhood Group

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.…

Community Improvement
2
The Genesis Project Seattle

Offer hope for a new life to young women and girls involved in domestic minor sex trafficking in the south king county area.

Religion
3
Shared Hope International

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.

Human Services
4
Network Beyond

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Pregnancy Choices of Skagit County

Pregnancy Choices is a Christian ministry caring for those touched by unplanned pregnancy by providing options and resources that promote life.

Health
6
Shepherd's House Ministries

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Cocoon House

Partners with young people, families and the community to break the cycle of homelessness through outreach, housing, prevention, education and employment.

Housing & Shelter
8
3STRANDS Global Foundation

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…

Employment
9
True North of Columbia Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Wounded Spirits Ministries

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…

Recreation & Sports
11
Covenant House Washington Dc

Covenant house washington, dc ("chw") provides shelter, crisis care, community services, and outreach services to youth in the washington dc area.

Human Services
12
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Family Life Learning and Counseling Center; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 31 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $50,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF THE BIBLEBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $40,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTONEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY: $23,500 · OtherEVERGREEN CHRISTIAN COMMUNITYHEART FOR LEBANON: $23,000 · OtherHEART FOR LEBANONNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION: $21,176 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONINTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF THE FOURSQUARE GOSPEL: $17,499 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF THE FOURSQUARE GOSPELTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $17,375 · OtherTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATIONFOURSQUARE MISSIONS INTERN: $9,074 · OtherTRONIE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTRONIE FOUNDATIONNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $16,000 · OtherNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INCCHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $14,000 · OtherTHE HEART OF LEBANON INC: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $72,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS …Northwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center: $24,400 · Human ServicesNorthwest F…RISE UP ACADEMY: $7,500 · Human ServicesRISE UP ACA…Homeless Backpacks Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Ba…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPE…DRY TIKES AND WET WIPES: $5,000 · Human ServicesDRY TIKES A…SOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN: $2,500 · Human ServicesThe Fathers Ranch Ministries: $2,500 · Human ServicesSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationSTREET BUS…SOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationSOUTH PUGE…NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNORTHWEST …SAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationWASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTION: $30,000 · InternationalFREEDOM FIRM USA: $10,000 · InternationalATK INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · ReligionC3 LEADERS: $12,500 · ReligionOPTIONS PREGNANCY CLINIC: $21,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · Health
Other$266,624Youth Development$72,000Human Services$53,900Education$52,500International$40,000Religion$32,500Health$24,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND: $72,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $40,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAFFICKING PREVENTION: $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwest Family Life Learning And Counseling Center: $24,400 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetOPTIONS PREGNANCY CLINIC: $21,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetATK INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTRONIE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHURSTON COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $17,375 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH PUGET SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS AIDS ART PROGRAMME: $14,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetC3 LEADERS: $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFREEDOM FIRM USA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HEART OF LEBANON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNORTHWEST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRISE UP ACADEMY: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHomeless Backpacks Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF OLYMPIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT MARTIN'S UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SOUND YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN: $2,500 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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Community Foundat…Thurston County Econo…The Norcliffe Foundat…North Thurston Educat…School's Out Washingt…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Jernigan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jernigan 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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $534k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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