FundersNew Jersey

Jam Anonymous Foundation Inc

Rumson, NJ · EIN 22-2621688. Reported 44 grants totalling $650,235 to 29 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$650,235granted, 2020-2023
29organizations funded
33%of grantees funded again the next year
$707assets, 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. Jam Anonymous Foundation Inc 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 $3,000 and $22,216; the smallest was $75 and the largest $81,958. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
13 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 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
University of DelawareNewark, DE$120,198332022
Charleston CollegeCharleston, SC$93,053222022
Roanoke CollegeSalem, VA$86,897222022
College of Charleston FoundationCharleston, SC$81,958112021
Visiting Nurse Association Health Group IncHolmdel, NJ$58,536222021
Rumson PTORumson, NJ$27,135332023
Horizon Student EnrichmentWestport, CT$25,000112020
Franciscan Friars of Holy Name ProvinceNew York, NY$20,000112021
Riverview AuxiliaryRed Bank, NJ$20,000112021
Rumson Fire Company of East OceanicRumson, NJ$13,000332022
Riverview Medical Center FoundationRed Bank, NJ$11,000222022
Franascan Friars of Holy Name ProvinceNew York, NY$10,000112020
Make a Wish Foundation of AmericaPhoenix, AZ$10,000222021
Monmouth County Historical AssociationFreehold, NJ$10,000222021
Oceanic Hook & Ladder Co 1Rumson, NJ$8,000222021
Monmouth Conservation FoundationMiddletown, NJ$7,759332023
Carson Scholars Fund IncTowson, MD$7,500112020
Canterbury School IncFort Wayne, IN$5,000112020
Lenoir Rhyne UniversityHickory, NC$5,000112020
Rumson First Aid Squad IncRumson, NJ$5,000112020
Rumson PbaRumson, NJ$5,000112020
Rumson Pba Local 345Rumson, NJ$5,000112021
Rumson Education Foundation IncRumson, NJ$4,624112022
Rumson Community Appeal Association IncRumson, NJ$3,000112020
Boys & Girls Clubs of AmericaAtlanta, GA$2,500112022
The Farm School Foundation IncAthol, MA$2,500112021
National Wildlife FederationReston, VA$1,500112021
Franciscan Friars of Holy Name ProvinceAtlanta, GA$1,000112023
Visiting Nurse Service of New JerseyRed Bank, NJ$75112023

11 of 29 (38%) 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 33%, 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 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
9 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
3 grants
Environment
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Animal Welfare
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202016$177,209$5,000
202115$313,598$5,000
20229$153,704$5,000
20234$5,724$1,609

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. 27% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New Jersey
$178K
South Carolina
$175K
Delaware
$120K
Virginia
$88K
New York
$30K
Connecticut
$25K
Arizona
$10K
Maryland
$8K

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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 New Jersey.
  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 Jam Anonymous Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: C/O Rumson Mgmt 95 Ave of 2 Rivers, Rumson, NJ, 07760. 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 22-2621688 · 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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