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The Jerry & Eileen Giving Fund at a glance

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The Jerry & Eileen Giving Fund

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.

$57k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
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, FY2022 to 2024.

International$70kEducation$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kHuman Services$13kHealth$12k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$729k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HASTINGS CATHOLIC ED FOUND$10,000
BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION$10,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH$10,000
NPH-USA$10,000
NPH-USA$10,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$5,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH$2,000
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 (FY24–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $10k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $2k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Jerry & Eileen Giving Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Jerry & Eileen Giving Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 4 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$95k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+44%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +11%
  • HC
    HASTINGS CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +25%
  • OW
    ONE WORLD SURGERY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $16k · revenue -30%

Funded once

  • AN
    AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - MINNEAPOLIS MN
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • HF
    HASTINGS FAMILY SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · 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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 9 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $54,755 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USAONE WORLD SURGERY: $15,500 · InternationalONE WORLD SURGERYHASTINGS CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUND: $23,000 · ReligionHASTINGS CATHOLIC E…BENEDICTINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherBENEDICTINE FOUNDA…AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS - MINNEAPOLIS MN: $9,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL …ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI: $2,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE…+1 more: $500 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $12,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHR…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…
International$70,255Religion$23,000Other$21,500Human Services$17,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $54,755 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHASTINGS CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUND: $23,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetONE WORLD SURGERY: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICTINE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHASTINGS FAMILY SERVICE: $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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charita…
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jerry & Eileen Giving Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jerry & Eileen Giving Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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 Jerry & Eileen Giving Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Jerry & Eileen Giving Fund 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 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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