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The Jolson Family Foundation at a glance

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The Jolson Family 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.

$838k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$226k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$693kFood & Nutrition$503kHousing & Shelter$233kReligion$153kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kHealth$121kAnimals$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $634k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIDGE THE GAP$225,561
10000 DEGREES$185,500
NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS$173,000
NICASIO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$50,000
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS$48,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$25,000
SAN GERONIMO VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
EXTRA FOOD MARIN$20,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN$15,000
MARIN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$15,000
HOMEWARD BOUND OF MARIN$10,000
THE CHANGE PROGRAM$10,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN$5,000
WILDCARE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $8k → 10%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%TRANS CONTINENTAL PIPELINE: $3k → 12%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 8%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 8%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $2k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%WEST MARIN SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 8%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $2k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $5k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES: $3k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $5k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $3k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $3k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE: $5k → 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN: $25k → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN: $25k → 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF MARIN: $15k → 8%VIVALON: $10k → 8%VIVALON: $10k → 8%VIVALON: $5k → 8%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

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 49 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
17

Total granted

$3.1M
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+45%

Still filing today

57%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • BT
    Bridge the Gap College Prep
    6× · 2018–2024 · $426k · revenue +182%
  • NG
    Next Generation Scholars Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $363k · revenue +37%
  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    6× · 2018–2024 · $310k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • HB
    HOMEWARD BOUND
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MA
    MARIN ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +45%
  • NV
    NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
4
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sara's Garden. 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

45 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. 45 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
34/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $260,000 · OtherMARIN COMMUNITY FOOD BANKSan Geronimo Valley Community Center: $155,000 · OtherSan Geronimo Valley Community CenterST ANTHONY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherST ANTHONY FOUNDATIONST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY MARIN COUNTY: $120,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY MARIN COUNTYIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOMEWARD BOUND: $100,000 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUNDEXTRAFOOD MARIN: $80,000 · OtherTHE CHANGE PROGRAM: $70,000 · Other+39 more: $583,500 · Other+39 moreNext Generation Scholars Inc: $363,000 · EducationNext Generation Scholars In…10000 DEGREES: $310,000 · Education10000 DEGREESUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $48,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE A…+5 more: $76,000 · Education+5 moreBridge the Gap College Prep: $426,162 · Youth DevelopmentBridge the Ga…ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $65,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesVivalon: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $24,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $22,500 · Human ServicesWest Marin Senior Services: $12,500 · Human ServicesNORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesNICASIO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterExtrafood: $120,000 · Food & NutritionTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $52,000 · HealthSARA'S GARDEN: $13,700 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,000 · Health+2 more: $3,500 · Health
Other$1,638,500Education$847,000Youth Development$426,162Human Services$219,000Public Safety & Disaster$150,000Food & Nutrition$120,000Health$85,200

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 budgetBridge the Gap College Prep: $426,162 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetNext Generation Scholars Inc: $363,000 over 3y, 10% of budget10000 DEGREES: $310,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSan Geronimo Valley Community Center: $155,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetNICASIO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $150,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetExtrafood: $120,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $52,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Hospitality House: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON FAMILIES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVivalon: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Veterinary Medical Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSARA'S GARDEN: $13,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWest Marin Senior Services: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY CHANGE PROGRAM: $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWILDCARE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicasio Land Preserve: $7,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES PRESENTS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBORDER KINDNESS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROOSTER RUN FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNICASIO SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $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.

  • Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
  • Who funds Next Generation Scholars Inc ↗
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
  • Who funds San Geronimo Valley Community Center ↗
  • Who funds NICASIO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
  • Who funds Extrafood ↗
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Central City Hospitality House ↗
  • Who funds SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
  • Who funds Vivalon ↗
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
  • Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds California Veterinary Medical Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…Leonard & Beryl Buck …Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Jewish Community Fede…United Way of the Bay…Harbor Point Charitab…The Endurance FundExtrafoodMcNabb FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…American Endowment Fo…Peter E Haas Jr Famil…
Marin Community FoundationCA32.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Way of the Bay Area · Harbor Point Charitable Foundation · The Endurance Fund · Extrafood · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 74 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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