California · Nonprofit
THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION
THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,774,570 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($700,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-3669759
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $32M
What The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation does
Mission
The mission of The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation is to foster a thriving community envisioned and realized by its residents. The vision of the jacobs center is to be part of a caring community where people are responsible to each other, where all cultures are embraced, where sustaining resources are in place for a vibrant economy, and where residents create the future they envision.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
All of jcni's activities contribute to the furtherance of a neighborhood innovation district within san diego's diamond neighborhoods. Specific activities include: 1) work related to physical infrastructure and physical assets within the community. (examples include: construction of the trolley park terrace affordable housing complex, securing an active transportation program grant to effect over $4 million in improvements to create complete streets in the neighborhood surrounding market street and euclid avenue, and completing a river parkway adjoining chollas creek); 2) work related to promoting the arts within the diamond neighborhoods, and using arts as a tool for economic development and community cohesion. (examples include: securing funds from the national endowment for the arts, the city arts commission, as well as funds from private and corporate donors to support an artist in residence, public art projects, and a pop-up art gallery for local artists to display and sell their work); 3) promoting improvements to local education, through activities that support the success of public schools, charter schools, and organizations with an education-serving mission located…
$2,838,485 spentof which $72,000 as grants$669,735 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,838,485.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $54M to $38M (−31%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 11% · 2021 13% · 2022 15% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
-135% of THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Valerie Jacobs Hapke
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $422k → $160k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.2M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Jacobs Family Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 78% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 71% · 2022 50% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
18% of THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $411k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION is better cushioned than half of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Market Creek Plaza LLC · disregarded
- Jcni Trolley Partners LLC · disregarded
- West Side Creek LLC · disregarded
- Jacobs Facilities LLC · disregarded
- Market Row LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION?
- THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,774,570 to it, the largest being The James Irvine Foundation ($700,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,774,570 in grants to THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION?
- The James Irvine Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JACOBS CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOOD INNOVATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing