· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 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 +22% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +17%
Funded once
- CFCSULB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $14k
- CGCLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY-BLACK SCHOLARS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $10k
- ATAUGUSTA TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
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…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 68 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.
- 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 Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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