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Jacques M Littlefield Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$766k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$6.0MEnvironment$2.1MArts & Culture$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.7MCivil Rights$1.3MYouth Development$956kHuman Services$750kPhilanthropy$490kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $690
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $766k
$75,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOONSHOT EDVENTURES$765,576
COMMON CAUSE NORTH CAROLINA$180,454
TIDES FOUNDATION$150,000
HADANOU COLLECTIVE$131,763
CHILDREN NOW$131,209
DEMOCRACY NORTH CAROLINA$121,648
YOU CAN VOTE$100,464
NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE$100,000
EARTH FORCE$85,125
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$83,562
SOJOURNERS$79,972
Individual grant recipient$75,000
STATE VOICES$75,000
VOTERIDERS$74,951
NORTH CAROLINA VOTER PROJECT$57,101
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FII NATIONAL: $60k → 10%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $75k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE-ATLANTA: $50k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%BRAVER ANGELS: $50k → 17%CHILDREN NOW: $51k → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $50k → 10%BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%UPTOGETHER: $50k → 10%BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $75k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $115k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $115k → 12%CHILDREN NOW: $131k → 10%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
AZ
NC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 47 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
39

Total granted

$16M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+26%

Still filing today

87%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $561k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BV
    BLACK VOTERS MATTER
    one grant, 2024 · $151k
  • SM
    SAN MATEO CO OFFICE OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2018 · $150k
  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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
3
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
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
Coop Careers Inc

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

Education
8
Bold Impact

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

Arts & Culture
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Compass Science Communication Inc

Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.

Science & Tech
11
California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Colorado; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 99 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
44/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $2,569,794 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL I…Moonshot edVentures: $1,464,219 · EducationMoonshot edVenturesTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $467,189 · EducationTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVEUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $420,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $325,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $300,657 · Education+10 more: $920,000 · Education+10 moreSojourners Inc: $880,727 · OtherSojourners IncSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $454,273 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $325,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEmpower Community High School: $209,250 · OtherHADANOU COLLECTIVE (THE MARDALE JAY WRITING CENTER): $200,000 · OtherCHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL (SOBRATO CENTER FOR NONPROFITS): $200,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $465,929 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC+37 more: $2,766,159 · Other+37 moreTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $847,731 · EnvironmentTHORNE ECOL…GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $250,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREE…Save The Bay: $200,000 · EnvironmentSave The Ba…Climate Defense Project: $165,000 · EnvironmentClimate Def…STRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS: $155,000 · EnvironmentSTRATEGIC E…Ten Strands: $150,000 · EnvironmentTen StrandsCOLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO AL…+1 more: $48,826 · EnvironmentPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $1,460,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROA…DANCERS GROUP: $160,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS GRO…BRAVEMAKER: $126,600 · Arts & CultureBRAVEMAKERCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS: $85,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $100,000 · Arts & CultureYOU CAN VOTE: $331,138 · Civil RightsYOU CAN V…NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $275,657 · Civil RightsNEW GEORG…Democracy North Carolina: $221,648 · Civil RightsDemocracy…SPREAD THE VOTE INC: $200,032 · Civil RightsSPREAD TH…VOTERIDERS: $149,951 · Civil RightsVOTERIDER…ONE ARIZONA: $125,000 · Civil RightsONE ARIZO…CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FO…STATE VOICES: $75,000 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA VOTER PROJECT: $57,101 · Civil Rights+1 more: $50,000 · Civil RightsEarth Force Inc: $310,125 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE: $265,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NOW: $182,290 · 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 ServicesBraver AngelsInc: $50,000 · Human ServicesTIDES FOUNDATION: $350,000 · PhilanthropyINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $210,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $135,000 · PhilanthropyWISDOM INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,466,859Other$5,501,338Environment$1,941,557Arts & Culture$1,931,600Civil Rights$1,585,527Human Services$1,478,415Philanthropy$850,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $2,569,794 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetMoonshot edVentures: $1,464,219 over 6y, 63% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $1,460,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSojourners Inc: $880,727 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE: $847,731 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE HADANOU COLLECTIVE: $467,189 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $465,929 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $420,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOU CAN VOTE: $331,138 over 3y, 15% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $325,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetEarth Force Inc: $310,125 over 4y, 10% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $300,657 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC: $275,657 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $265,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $221,648 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetINNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $210,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEmpower Community High School: $209,250 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSPREAD THE VOTE INC: $200,032 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSave The Bay: $200,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $182,290 over 2y, 0.5% 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 budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTen Strands: $150,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetBOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $149,951 over 2y, 1.8% 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 budgetACROSS THE BRIDGE FOUNDATION DBA DOWNTOWN COLLEGE PREPARATORY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO ALLIANCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC: $125,000 over 3y, 9.5% 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 budgetWISDOM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES: $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budget
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 EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Moonshot edVentures ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Sojourners Inc ↗
  • Who funds THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE HADANOU COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOU CAN VOTE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Earth Force Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
  • Who funds Democracy North Carolina ↗
  • Who funds INNOVATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Empower Community High School ↗
  • Who funds SPREAD THE VOTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Bay ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
  • Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Climate Defense Project ↗
  • Who funds DANCERS GROUP ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Ten Strands ↗
  • Who funds BOULDER HOUSING PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jacques M Littlefield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jacques M Littlefield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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