California · Private foundation
J L 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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 22
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $37M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations J L Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k 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 | $2.0M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $2.0M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.8M | 67% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $2.0M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation | $2,411,831 | 5 | 1% |
| Learning Rights Law Center | $584,902 | 4 | 10% |
| Pacific Council on International Policy | $504,760 | 4 | 10% |
| California Institute of the Arts | $450,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $402,976 | 4 | 0% |
| Idyllwild Arts Foundation | $402,077 | 4 | 0% |
| The Achievable Foundation | $302,339 | 3 | 2% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Vista del Mar Child and Family Services | $281,657 | 3 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Philharmonic Association | $277,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget J L 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: California Community Foundation · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · G a Fowler Family Foundation · Unihealth Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation
How this is measured
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About J L Foundation
- How much does J L Foundation give?
- J L Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $2,190,229 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does J L Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (25%), Arts & Culture (16%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are J L Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation ($2.4M), Learning Rights Law Center ($585k), Pacific Council on International Policy ($505k).
- Does J L Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does J L 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 J L Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation, Towbes Foundation.
- Where is J L Foundation based?
- J L Foundation is based in CA.
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