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The Jinks Private Foundation

Gainesville, GA · EIN 58-2253490. Reported 42 grants totalling $529,304 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$529,304granted, 2021-2024
25organizations funded
45%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,991,139assets, 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 Jinks Private 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 $25,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
3 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
12 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

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
Stetson UniversityDeland, FL$166,500332024
Ugsrf IncAthens, GA$75,000222023
Uga FoundationAthens, GA$50,000212024
University of Ga FoundationAthens, GA$50,000212021
Bearings Bike ShopAtlanta, GA$25,000112024
Institute for Water & Environmental ResilienceDeland, FL$25,000112024
Atlanta Boxer RescueMableton, GA$20,000332023
The Salvation ArmyAtlanta, GA$15,500332024
Ga Natural Resources FdtnMt Pleasant, SC$15,304112023
Georgia Natural Resources Fdtn IncAtlanta, GA$15,000112021
St Jude Childrens Research HospitalMemphis, TN$15,000332024
Eagle RanchChestnut Mountain, GA$10,000222024
Georgia Conservancy IncAtlanta, GA$10,000222022
Tommy Nobis CenterAtlanta, GA$7,500222024
Chattahoochee RiverkeeperAtlanta, GA$7,000112022
Lake Lanier AssociationGainesville, GA$5,000112022
The Ga Trust for Historic PreservAtlanta, GA$5,000112021
Cystic Fibrosis FoundationBethesda, MD$4,000442024
Paws Between HomesDecatur, GA$2,500112021
Ung FoundationDahlonega, GA$2,500112024
Atlanta Humane SocietyAtlanta, GA$1,000112024
Atlanta Lyric TheatreMarietta, GA$1,000112023
Alzheimers AssociationAtlanta, GA$500112022
American Cancer SocietyAtlanta, GA$500112023
Young LifeAtlanta, GA$500112023

9 of 25 (36%) 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 45%, 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 22 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
7 grants
Diseases & Disorders
4 grants
Environment
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20219$108,500$5,000
202210$76,500$7,250
202311$163,304$5,000
202412$181,000$2,500

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. 57% 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
$304K
Florida
$192K
South Carolina
$15K
Tennessee
$15K
Maryland
$4K

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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.

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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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Jinks Private 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: 6457 Spindrift Court, Gainesville, GA, 30506. 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 58-2253490 · 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.

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