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The Jerome Kobacker Charities 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Jerome Kobacker Charities Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Jerome Kobacker Charities Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $985k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATHFINDER | $1,420,000 |
| MONTE MARINE LAB & AQUARIUM | $320,000 |
| MID-OHIO FOOD COLLECTIVE | $290,000 |
| COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD | $120,000 |
| SAGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| FAWCO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ST MARYS FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $75,000 |
| ROOM TO READ | $65,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO | $50,000 |
| YWCA COLUMBUS | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ARIZONA | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $160k) 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 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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- MFMid-Ohio Foodbank2× · 2022–2023 · $330k · revenue +13%
- CSCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +30%
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- PCPANTHERA CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +64%
- KCKIPP COLUMBUSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +27%
- YTYELLOWSTONE TO YUKONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +44%
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital. 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 53 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) — 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 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE FAWCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVAJO HEALTH FOUNDATION - SAGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Rescue Aspen Inc ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP COLUMBUS ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON ↗
- Who funds LIFECARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
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: Hinson Family Trust Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jerome Kobacker Charities 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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