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Djerassi Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$818kCrime & Legal$324kArts & Culture$135kEducation$119kCivil Rights$65kReligion$43kHuman Services$16kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT$77,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIV$10,000
EPISCOPAL ACADEMY$5,000
SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER$1,000
WHY NOT PROSPER$1,000
JERUSALEM INT'L SPORTS CENTER$500
ISRAELI PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR ASSOC$500
PHILLY TRUCE FOUNDATION$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $4k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $4k → 22%PHILLY TRUCE FOUNDATION: $250 → 22%PHILLY TRUCE FOUNDATION: $250 → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$662k · 16 repeat orgs$878k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
20

Total granted

$662k
$877k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+15%

Still filing today

69%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $321k · revenue +14% · 96% of their budget
  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
    5× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +50%
  • OPERA PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2017–2020 · $95k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DJERASSI GOLUB FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $818k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSSAR INC
    one grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue -22%
  • DI
    DIALOGUE INSTITUTES
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Philadelphia Theatre Company

Philadelphia theatre company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and…

Arts & Culture
3
The Philadelphia Award
—
4
The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…

Arts & Culture
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
6
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

—
7
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
8
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
9
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
10
Philadelphia Performing Arts a String Theory Charter School

Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.

Education
11
Theatre Ariel

Philadelphias only professional theatre company dedicated to telling stories about the Jewish experience. For over 3 decades, we have been presenting plays and special events that speak to Jewish history, culture, and thought.

Arts & Culture
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Orchestra Association; the most unlike its peers is Jerusalem International Basketball-Sports Center Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DJERASSI GOLUB FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND: $817,866 · OtherTHE DJERASSI GOLUB FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND+26 more: $106,115 · Other+26 moreTHE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $321,100 · Crime & LegalTHE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJ…OPERA PHILADELPHIA: $95,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $100,500 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $57,000 · Civil RightsEpiscopal Academy: $11,000 · EducationWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $6,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSSAR INC: $12,000 · Religion
Other$923,981Crime & Legal$321,100Arts & Culture$106,000International$100,500Civil Rights$57,000Education$19,000Religion$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT: $321,100 over 5y, 96% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $100,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $95,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $57,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSSAR INC: $12,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRACQUET CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA GIRLS' ROWING CLUB: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLY TRUCE FOUNDATION: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDA VINCI ART ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJerusalem International Basketball-Sports Center Corp: $500 over 1y, 33% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
  • Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSSAR INC ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Why Not Prosper Inc ↗
  • Who funds RACQUET CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA GIRLS' ROWING CLUB ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PHILLY TRUCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DA VINCI ART ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Jerusalem International Basketball-Sports Center Corp ↗
  • Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Independence Foundati…The Philadelphia Cult…Djerassi Foundation I…Hamilton Family Chari…The Neubauer Family F…Hamilton Family Found…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA19× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Djerassi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Djerassi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Djerassi Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Djerassi Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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