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THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION

THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$495k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$200k
Grants received
$897k
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 56%

Against its field

THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve3.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,105 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($215k) Expenses 100 ($129k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 54 ($116k) Expenses 148 ($191k) Net assets 85 ($914k)2019 Revenue 102 ($219k) Expenses 171 ($220k) Net assets 82 ($872k)2020 Revenue 61 ($131k) Expenses 105 ($135k) Net assets 92 ($982k)2021 Revenue 166 ($357k) Expenses 175 ($225k) Net assets 114 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 21 ($45k) Expenses 112 ($144k) Net assets 64 ($689k)2023 Revenue 39 ($85k) Expenses 71 ($91k) Net assets 85 ($909k)2024 Revenue 230 ($495k) Expenses 382 ($493k) Net assets 84 ($897k)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (382)Net assets (84)Peer revenue range
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION’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 MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

NV
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION?
THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $200,000 in grants to THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION?
Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MATTHEW AND ROBERTA JENKINS FAMILY FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing