· Private foundation
Jack Ertl Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NICHLAUS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| COHENS CHILDRENS MED CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $25,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| PAP CORP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS | $5,000 |
| WYCKOFF FAMILY YMCA | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +59%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN4× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +78%- JDJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SJST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $25k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +39%
- TSThe SD Gunner Fund Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -70%
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.
7 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. 7 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The SD Gunner Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds WYCKOFF FAMILY YMCA ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jack Ertl Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack Ertl Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wyckoff Family Ymca: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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