Virginia · Private foundation
Downtown Jaycees Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,334
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,305
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $335k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Downtown Jaycees Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 20 | $32k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $32k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $35k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $33k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $27k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $27k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $26k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $22k | 60% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Friends Inc | $24,905 | 7 | 0% |
| Bright Beginnings Inc | $19,207 | 7 | 0% |
| Wanda Alston Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Juliet Grace Smith Foundation Inc | $12,800 | 6 | n/a |
| City Blossoms Inc | $12,066 | 4 | 0% |
| SMYAL Inc | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $10,465 | 5 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $9,818 | 7 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Washington | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The American Experience Foundation Inc | $8,620 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Downtown Jaycees Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Arlington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Washington Forrest Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Downtown Jaycees Foundation
- How much does Downtown Jaycees Foundation give?
- Downtown Jaycees Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $32,330 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Downtown Jaycees Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Youth Development (18%), Health (17%).
- Who are Downtown Jaycees Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food & Friends Inc ($25k), Bright Beginnings Inc ($19k), Wanda Alston Foundation Inc ($13k).
- Does Downtown Jaycees Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Downtown Jaycees Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Downtown Jaycees Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee.
- Where is Downtown Jaycees Foundation based?
- Downtown Jaycees Foundation is based in VA.
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