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Jacques M Littlefield Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$411k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$6.0MEnvironment$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.7MCivil Rights$1.3MYouth Development$956kHuman Services$750kPhilanthropy$490kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+1 grant · $411k
$100,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOONSHOT EDVENTURES$410,893
TIDES FOUNDATION$200,000
BLACK VOTERS MATTER$151,263
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$150,000
SOJOURNERS$150,000
ONE ARIZONA$125,000
HADANOU COLLECTIVE$119,426
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$117,453
THORNE NATURE EXPERIENCE$116,731
COMMON CAUSE$100,842
YOUTH SERVICE AMERICA$100,842
POWER INTERFAITH$100,000
NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE$100,000
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT$100,000
WISDOM INC$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FII NATIONAL: $60k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $75k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $50k → 9%BRAVER ANGELS: $50k → 17%CHILDREN NOW: $51k → 10%BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%UPTOGETHER: $50k → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $50k → 10%BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $115k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $115k → 12%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $100k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $35k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $36k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 42 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
29

Total granted

$14M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+111%

Still filing today

86%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EC
    EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +205%
  • PB
    PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +81%
  • TE
    THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $848k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • SM
    SAN MATEO CO OFFICE OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • NV
    NC VOTER PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS CENTER FOR HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
6
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
7
Deans for Impact

See Schedule ODeans for Impact supports educator-preparation programs to bring the science of learning into teaching practice; partners with policymakers to ensure pathways into teaching are accessible, practice-based, and…

Education
8
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
9
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
10
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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11
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Boulder Housing Partners Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Dance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,502

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
41/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $2,569,794 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL…Moonshot edVentures — $698,643 · EducationMoonshot edVenturesUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $420,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $335,426 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVEWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $275,657 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $225,000 · Education+10 more — $920,000 · Education+10 moreSojourners Inc — $800,755 · OtherSojourners IncSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $370,711 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherEmpower Community High School — $209,250 · OtherCHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL (SOBRATO CENTER FOR NONPROFITS) — $200,000 · OtherHADANOU COLLECTIVE (THE MARDALE JAY WRITING CENTER) — $200,000 · OtherTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM — $170,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $411,316 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC+33 more — $2,290,015 · Other+33 moreTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $847,731 · EnvironmentTHORNE ECOLO…GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $250,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREEN…Save The Bay — $200,000 · EnvironmentSave The BayClimate Defense Project — $165,000 · EnvironmentClimate Defe…STRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS — $155,000 · EnvironmentSTRATEGIC EN…Ten Strands — $150,000 · EnvironmentTen StrandsCOLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC — $125,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO ALL…PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $1,460,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROAD…DANCERS GROUP — $160,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GROU…BRAVEMAKER — $126,600 · Arts & CultureBRAVEMAKERCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $85,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHERE WITH CARE — $265,000 · Human ServicesEarth Force Inc — $225,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL — $160,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $136,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $100,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOW — $51,081 · Human ServicesBraver AngelsInc — $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $275,657 · Civil RightsYOU CAN VOTE — $230,674 · Civil RightsSPREAD THE VOTE INC — $200,032 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA — $125,000 · Civil RightsDemocracy North Carolina — $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS — $75,000 · Civil RightsTIDES FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $200,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $135,000 · PhilanthropyWISDOM INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$5,444,520Other$4,902,047Environment$1,892,731Arts & Culture$1,881,600Human Services$1,262,081Civil Rights$1,106,363Philanthropy$690,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $2,569,794 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $1,460,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $847,731 over 7y, 12% of budgetSojourners Inc — $800,755 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetMoonshot edVentures — $698,643 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $420,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $411,316 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE — $335,426 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $275,657 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $275,657 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE — $265,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOU CAN VOTE — $230,674 over 2y, 15% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $225,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetEarth Force Inc — $225,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetEmpower Community High School — $209,250 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSPREAD THE VOTE INC — $200,032 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Bay — $200,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM — $170,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetClimate Defense Project — $165,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetDANCERS GROUP — $160,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $160,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS — $155,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTen Strands — $150,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCompass High School — $145,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $136,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $135,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRISE COLORADO — $130,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetBRAVEMAKER — $126,600 over 3y, 17% of budgetCOLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC — $125,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetACROSS THE BRIDGE FOUNDATION DBA DOWNTOWN COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetONE ARIZONA — $125,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE ATLANTA INC — $125,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $100,842 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYouth Service America — $100,842 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER — $100,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetWISDOM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Denver FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Amalgamated Charitabl…Gates Family Foundati…ImpactassetsincColorado Gives Founda…Tides FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Rose Community Founda…Gordon E and Betty I …California Community …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA32.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jacques M Littlefield Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jacques M Littlefield Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jacques M Littlefield Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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