· Private foundation
The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Long Beach Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $77k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| CCEJ | $5,000 |
| CSU LB 49R FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SUCCESS IN CHALLENGES | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,000 |
| LONG BEACH BRANCH NAACP | $1,000 |
| LA HABRA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LBLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $189k · revenue +159%
- TUTuskegee University3× · 2018–2023 · $100k · revenue +34%
- ICINTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE6× · 2018–2023 · $48k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CFCSULB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $14k
- CGCLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY-BLACK SCHOLARS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ATAUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Long Beach Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Success in Challenges Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LONG BEACH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CONFLUENCE RISING ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LADIES INC ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS IN CHALLENGES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds EDUCATING STUDENTS TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles Tuskegee Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Earl B & Loraine H Miller Foundation · The Rudolph J & Daphne a Munzer Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Josephine S Gumbiner Foundation · Bess J Hodges Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Schulzman-Neri Foundation · Keesal Young & Logan Charitable Foundation · Honda USA Foundation · Long Beach Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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