Illinois · Private foundation
Jackson Kemper 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.
- $15M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $225,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,169,486
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $47M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Jackson Kemper Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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 | 37 | $15M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $14M | 3% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $15M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $11M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $10M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $8.6M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $5.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amigos de Honduras | $11,482,112 | 5 | 84% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $6,400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $5,987,381 | 7 | 10% |
| Charity Global Inc | $3,583,562 | 5 | 2% |
| Predisan USA Inc | $3,167,559 | 5 | 32% |
| Kids Alive International Inc | $2,995,762 | 7 | 4% |
| Trinity Hope Inc | $2,500,000 | 2 | 32% |
| Project Mercy Inc | $2,350,000 | 6 | 25% |
| Cambodian Childrens Fund | $2,150,598 | 6 | 5% |
| One Acre Fund | $2,150,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jackson Kemper Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Express Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Jackson Kemper Foundation
- How much does Jackson Kemper Foundation give?
- Jackson Kemper Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $15,090,475 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jackson Kemper Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (63%), Health (19%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Jackson Kemper Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Amigos de Honduras ($11M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($6.4M), The Fistula Foundation ($6.0M).
- Does Jackson Kemper Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jackson Kemper 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 Jackson Kemper Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, American Express Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Jackson Kemper Foundation based?
- Jackson Kemper Foundation is based in IL.
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