FundersGeorgia

The Jals Family Foundation

Atlanta, GA · EIN 58-6369445. Reported 133 grants totalling $742,700 to 72 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$742,700granted, 2021-2024
72organizations funded
53%of grantees funded again the next year
$3,684,777assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Jals Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
64 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
45 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Cathedral of St PhilipAtlanta, GA$76,500442024
Atlanta Speech SchoolAtlanta, GA$50,000112022
Agape Youth and Family CenterAtlanta, GA$32,500332024
Partnership Against Domestic ViolenceAtlanta, GA$32,500332024
Aurora Day CampDecatur, GA$25,000332024
Shepherd CenterAtlanta, GA$25,000442024
Spartanburg County FoundationSpartanburg, SC$25,000112021
Cor IncAtlanta, GA$22,500332024
Friends of RefugeesClarkston, GA$22,500442024
Georgia WorksAtlanta, GA$20,000442024
Lekotek of Georgia IncTucker, GA$19,700442024
Cure Childhood CancerAtlanta, GA$17,500222024
Atlanta Community Food BankAtlanta, GA$15,000442024
Georgia Innocence ProjectAtlanta, GA$15,000222022
Camp Twin LakesAtlanta, GA$13,500442024
Greenville Humane SocietyGreenville, SC$12,500222024
Holy Innocents' Episcopal SchoolAtlanta, GA$12,500222022
The Jabez ProjectDecatur, GA$12,000442024
Center for the Visually ImpairedAtlanta, GA$11,500222023
Suits for SeniorsWest Palm Beach, FL$10,500222022
Atlanta Police FoundationAtlanta, GA$10,000112021
Central Outreach and Advocacy CenterAtlanta, GA$10,000222024
Champions Community FoundationJohns Creek, GA$10,000112024
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$10,000112023
Kind of the UpstateGreenville, SC$10,000222024
La Amistad IncAtlanta, GA$10,000112021
Soccer in the StreetsAtlanta, GA$10,000222023
Crime Victims Advisory CouncilAtlanta, GA$9,000442024
Hydrocephalus AssociationBethesda, MD$8,500442024
National Incarceration AssociationRoswell, GA$7,500222024
Sea Turtle Hospital (sc Aquarium)Charleston, SC$7,500332024
The Study HallAtlanta, GA$7,500332023
Atlanta Music ProjectAtlanta, GA$7,000112022
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers FoundationAtlanta, GA$7,000112023
Bearings Bike WorksAtlanta, GA$7,000112024
FCA North Central AlabamaBirmingham, AL$7,000442024
Wonder UniverseChristiansburg, VA$6,000222022
American Red CrossBoone, IA$5,000112021
Breakthrough AtlantaAtlanta, GA$5,000112023
Children's Healthcare of AtlantaAtlanta, GA$5,000112024
Covenant House GeorgiaAtlanta, GA$5,000112021
Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High SchoolAtlanta, GA$5,000112023
Dayspring Community MinistryNashville, TN$5,000112023
Early Learning Property ManagementLawrenceville, GA$5,000112021
Emmaus HouseAtlanta, GA$5,000112024
Episcopal Relief and DevelopmentHarlan, IA$5,000112024
Global Growers NetworkDecatur, GA$5,000112022
Jewish Federation of Greater AtlantaAtlanta, GA$5,000112022
Rehabilitation Enables DreamsAtlanta, GA$5,000112023
Remerge (growing Grace)Dunwoody, GA$5,000112024
Russell Center for InnovationAtlanta, GA$5,000112021
Soul Changers Recovery FoundationAustell, GA$5,000112024
UnicefNew York, NY$5,000112022
Goshen Valley FoundationCanton, GA$4,000222022
Paws AtlantaDecatur, GA$4,000112023
Community Foundation of Ne GeorgiaDuluth, GA$3,500222023
ReapAtlanta, GA$3,000112021
Silence the ShameAlpharetta, GA$3,000112022
Special Olympics GeorgiaNorcross, GA$3,000112024
3D Girls IncAtlanta, GA$2,500112021
Cristo Rey Jesuit High SchoolAtlanta, GA$2,500112021
Georgia State University FoundationAtlanta, GA$2,500112023
Horizons AtlantaAtlanta, GA$2,500112021
New River Land TrustBlacksburg, VA$2,500112021
Sea Turtle HospitalCharleston, SC$2,500112021
Ascensa HealthAtlanta, GA$2,000222024
Claire's ArmyCharlotte, NC$2,000112021
Kiwanis Foundation of AtlantaAtlanta, GA$2,000222022
Woodruff Arts CenterAtlanta, GA$2,000222022
Center for Puppetry ArtsAtlanta, GA$1,500112021
Serenade HeightsWoodstock, GA$1,500112023
Ucp of GeorgiaAtlanta, GA$1,000112022

33 of 72 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 53%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 68 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
12 grants
Youth Development
10 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Arts & Culture
7 grants
Recreation & Sports
6 grants
Education
4 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Crime & Legal
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202140$185,000$3,000
202232$185,000$3,000
202331$176,500$5,000
202430$196,200$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 85% of this one's giving went to organizations in Georgia. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Georgia
$629K
South Carolina
$58K
Florida
$10K
Iowa
$10K
Maryland
$8K
Virginia
$8K
Alabama
$7K
Tennessee
$5K

Find more foundations like The Jals Family Foundation

We email you newly filed foundations whose giving matches your state and cause, as the IRS publishes them. Free.

No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.

Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc39 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc37 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund35 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation for Greater34 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc26 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program24 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Georgia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Jals Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 4755 Millbrook Drive Nw, Atlanta, GA, 30327. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 58-6369445 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

Is something here wrong about your foundation? Email [email protected] and we will correct it.