· Private foundation
The Jobson Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| ALTADENA ARTS MAGNET ES | $107,081 |
| SEED WORKS | $82,584 |
| MCLEAN COUNTY UNIT 5 CHOOL DISTRICT | $75,000 |
| CARAVAN TO CLASS | $50,000 |
| NEWTON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| HOPEKIDS | $25,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| MICHAEL DUKAKIS INSTITUTE | $11,000 |
| HEALTH NETWORK | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $648k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $340k · revenue +45%
- WCWellesley College4× · 2022–2025 · $101k · revenue +3%
- CTCaravan to Class3× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- NYNew York Universityone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
- ARANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $30k
- TLTONY LA RUSSO'S ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $27k
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.
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
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Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jobson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jobson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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