California · Private foundation
Jacques M Littlefield 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $765,576
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Jacques M Littlefield Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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 | 24 | $2.4M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $2.8M | 58% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.9M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $1.9M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $2.0M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $2.1M | 33% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $1.9M | 21% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $2.1M | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastside College Preparatory School Inc | $2,569,794 | 8 | 4% |
| Moonshot edVentures | $1,464,219 | 6 | 63% |
| Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc | $1,460,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Sojourners Inc | $880,727 | 7 | 3% |
| Thorne Ecological Institute | $847,731 | 7 | 12% |
| The Hadanou Collective | $467,189 | 4 | 3% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $465,929 | 7 | 1% |
| Uc Santa Cruz Foundation | $420,000 | 6 | 1% |
| You Can Vote | $331,138 | 3 | 15% |
| North Carolina Black Alliance Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jacques M Littlefield Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gates Family Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jacques M Littlefield Foundation
- How much does Jacques M Littlefield Foundation give?
- Jacques M Littlefield Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $2,575,954 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jacques M Littlefield Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Environment (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Jacques M Littlefield Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eastside College Preparatory School Inc ($2.6M), Moonshot edVentures ($1.5M), Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc ($1.5M).
- Does Jacques M Littlefield Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jacques M Littlefield 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 Jacques M Littlefield Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Jacques M Littlefield Foundation based?
- Jacques M Littlefield Foundation is based in CA.
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