How much does The Jms Foundation for Children give?

The Jms Foundation for Children reported 28 grants totaling $7,509 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Jms Foundation for Children fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (36%), Philanthropy (26%), International (9%).

Who are The Jms Foundation for Children's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rehoboth Beach Epworth United Methodist Church ($14k), Whyy Inc ($1k), Center for Action and Contemplation ($1k).

Does The Jms Foundation for Children fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Jms Foundation for Children accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Jms Foundation for Children?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc.

Where is The Jms Foundation for Children based?

The Jms Foundation for Children is based in DE.

The Jms Foundation for Children

The Jms Foundation for Children at a glance

· Private foundation

The Jms Foundation for Children

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$17kPhilanthropy$12kInternational$4kEnvironment$4kHealth$2kArts & Culture$2kEducation$835Food & Nutrition$770Other$0

02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125

Median grant

States reached

$62k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BEEBE FOUNDATION	$1,916
ROSA HEALTH CENTER	$1,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER	$750
LONGWOOD GARDENS	$400
LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY	$320
MILTON FOOD PANTRY	$270
CATHOLIC LEGAL IMMIGRATION NETWORK	$258
RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY	$250
WHYY	$200
CAPE HENLOPEN BOYS' LACROSSE	$200
Individual grant recipient	$200
NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION	$200
CENTER FOR ACTION & CONTEMPLATION	$150
REHOBOTH ART LEAGUE	$125
Individual grant recipient	$125

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$37k · 30 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$37k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+37%

Still filing today

60%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

WHYY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +36%
CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION
5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +31%
LF
LEWES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $425 · revenue +50%

Funded once

FU
FAITH UMC
one grant, 2020 · $500
FB
FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC
one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue -15%
SD
SOUTHERN DE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE
one grant, 2024 · $370

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.

Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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Friends of the Delaware Canal Inc

The friends of the delaware canal is an independent, non-profit organization working to restore, preserve, and improve the delaware canal and its surroundings.

Environment

Federation of State Conservation Voter Leagues Dba Nj League of Cons Voters

New jersey lcv is the statewide political voice for the environment. working with our allies in the community, we advocate for strong environmental policies, support our environmental justice partners in pursuing more equitable policies,…

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Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. seeks to ensure an effective, efficient, and equitable system of justice in delaware through advocacy, direct services, research and public education.

Crime & Legal

Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Inc

Partnership for the delaware estuary, inc. (pde), host of the delaware estuary program, leads collaborative, science-based efforts to improve the delaware river and bay, which covers portions of delaware, new jersey, and pennsylvania.

Environment

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Delaware River Greenway Partnership Inc

Delaware River Greenway Partnership is a non-proift, non-partisan organization that educates the public in support of the natural and cultural resources along the Delaware River and its tributaries

Environment

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment

Delaware Advancement Corporation

To aggressively promote investment in muncie-delaware county which will result in the creation and retention of quality job opportunities and enhance the quality of life in our community.

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National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Delaware Agricultural Museum Association

The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Nature Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. 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

34 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. 34 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

22/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$36,323International$4,173Arts & Culture$2,685Health$1,600Environment$1,525Philanthropy$650Food & Nutrition$500

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

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.

Delaware Community Foundation IncDE35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Happy Difference Foundation · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way of Delaware · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home