Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Djerassi Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $95k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $77,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $154k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Djerassi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $95k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $91k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $122k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $143k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $906k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $52k | 55% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $116k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Accountability Project | $321,100 | 5 | 96% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $100,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Opera Philadelphia | $95,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Jewish Committee | $57,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Germantown Jewish Centre | $12,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Center for Contemporary Mussar Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Episcopal Academy | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Bethzion-Beth Israel | $9,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Scribe Video Center Inc | $7,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Accountability Project | $321,100 | 5 | 96% |
| American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ | $100,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Opera Philadelphia | $95,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Jewish Committee | $57,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Germantown Jewish Centre | $12,300 | 4 | n/a |
| Center for Contemporary Mussar Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Episcopal Academy | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Temple Bethzion-Beth Israel | $9,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Orchestra Association | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Scribe Video Center Inc | $7,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh | $7,000 | 2 | 0% |
| William Penn Charter School Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Academy of Vocal Arts | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Why Not Prosper Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Racquet Club of Philadelphia | $2,450 | 1 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Girls' Rowing Club | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Yale University | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St James School | $750 | 2 | n/a |
| Philly Truce Foundation | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Da Vinci Art Alliance | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jerusalem International Basketball-Sports Center Corp | $500 | 1 | 33% |
| Arden Theatre Company | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($877k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Djerassi Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Djerassi Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Charitable Trust · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation
How this is measured
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About Djerassi Foundation
- How much does Djerassi Foundation give?
- Djerassi Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $95,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Djerassi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Crime & Legal (21%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Djerassi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Accountability Project ($321k), American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($101k), Opera Philadelphia ($95k).
- Does Djerassi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Djerassi Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Djerassi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation.
- Where is Djerassi Foundation based?
- Djerassi Foundation is based in PA.
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