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The Jerome Kobacker Charities Foundation at a glance

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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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2023
24
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

4
’19
5
’20
4
’21
4
’22
18
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$500kScience & Tech$440kFood & Nutrition$405kHealth$367kInternational$235kHousing & Shelter$185kHuman Services$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kOther$0
02FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $985k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$100,000
FAWCO 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ARIZONA$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$50,000
MESA EAST VALLEY ROSE SOCIETY$50,000
DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAWCO FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%YWCA COLUMBUS: $50k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $10k → 15%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

MT
MI
NY
OH
CA
CO
MO
AZ
TN
DC
AL
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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+44%

Still filing today

60%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • MF
    Mid-Ohio Foodbank
    2× · 2022–2023 · $330k · revenue +13%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD
    3× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +30%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • PC
    PANTHERA CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +64%
  • KC
    KIPP COLUMBUSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +27%
  • YT
    YELLOWSTONE TO YUKONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +44%
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
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
5
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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6
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
9
Presbyterian Medical Services

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.

Health
10
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 33 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATHFINDER: $1,420,000 · OtherPATHFINDERMONTE MARINE LAB & AQUARIUM: $370,000 · OtherMONTE MARINE LAB & AQUARIUMMid-Ohio Foodbank: $330,000 · OtherMid-Ohio FoodbankCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $160,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD+13 more: $342,750 · Other+13 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED …NAVAJO HEALTH FOUNDATION - SAGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 · HealthNAVAJO HE…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthPARKINSON…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED P…Phoenix Children's Hospital: $50,000 · HealthPhoenix C…PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED P…PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $135,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 · InternationalTHE FAWCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO READ: $65,000 · EducationKIPP COLUMBUS: $15,000 · EducationCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $75,000 · Food & NutritionLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,622,750Philanthropy$500,000Health$350,000International$210,000Human Services$160,000Education$88,000Food & Nutrition$85,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $330,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHELTER BOARD: $160,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAWCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNAVAJO HEALTH FOUNDATION - SAGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Rescue Aspen Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetKIPP COLUMBUS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $1,000 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.

Hinson Family Trust F…L Brands FoundationIngram-White Castle F…Columbus FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hinson Family Trust FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Jerome Kobacker Charities Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jerome Kobacker Charities 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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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