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The Jules & Evelyn Jacobsen Charitable Trust Co Joel Ellis

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.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$97kInternational$49kEducation$21kCivil Rights$20kEnvironment$16kRecreation & Sports$16k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$402k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $3k → 11%HOSPICE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $2k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
0

Total granted

$203k
$0

Still filing today

82%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +99%
  • CC
    Cancer Care Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +30%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +78%

Funded once

    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
    New York University

    Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

    Education
    2
    Conservation International Foundation

    Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

    Environment
    3
    Target Als Foundation Inc

    Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

    Education
    4
    Brightfocus Foundation

    Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

    Health
    5
    Project Drawdown

    Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

    Education
    6
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

    Arts & Culture
    7
    Lowell Observatory

    The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

    Science & Tech
    8
    American Lung Association

    The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

    Health
    9
    Management Sciences for Health Inc

    (msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

    International
    10
    International Myeloma Foundation

    Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

    Unclassified
    11
    Researchamerica

    2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

    —
    12
    Council On Foreign Relations Inc

    The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

    International
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) 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

    10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
    10/10
    Grantees still filing
    9/10
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $16,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KER…PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN: $22,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERI…NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL RESEARCH: $21,000 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH MEDICA…Cancer Care Inc: $20,000 · HealthCancer Care IncLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $14,000 · HealthLUPUS FOUNDATION …UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $21,000 · EducationUNITED NEG…ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAM…Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesHospice of…FRESH AIR FUND: $16,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $16,000 · Environment
    International$49,000Other$43,000Health$34,000Education$21,000Civil Rights$20,000Human Services$20,000Recreation & Sports$16,000Environment$16,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Palm Beach County Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $14,000 over 5y, 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 UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
    • Who funds Cancer Care Inc ↗
    • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
    • Who funds Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
    • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
    • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
    • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
    • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
    • Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
    • Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization The Jules & Evelyn Jacobsen Charitable Trust Co Joel Ellis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jules & Evelyn Jacobsen Charitable Trust Co Joel Ellis. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      1get 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 · 0–20%
      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 12 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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