How much does Jade Tree Foundation give?

Jade Tree Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $312,569 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Jade Tree Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (21%), Environment (4%).

Who are Jade Tree Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wellesley College ($266k), Oberlin College ($187k), Ssp International Inc ($146k).

Does Jade Tree Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jade Tree 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 Jade Tree Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Arizona Community Foundation, The Hs Lopez Family Foundation.

Where is Jade Tree Foundation based?

Jade Tree Foundation is based in DE.

Jade Tree Foundation

Jade Tree Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jade Tree 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.

$313k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$52k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$568kEnvironment$119kHealth$108kFood & Nutrition$104kHousing & Shelter$90kHuman Services$69kScience & Tech$50kOther$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k22 grants · $66k
$10k–50k10 grants · $195k
$50k–250k1 grant · $52k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UA MED SCHOOL GUSHAN SETHI PROFESSORSHIP (ENDOWMENT)	$51,885
Individual grant recipient	$25,220
WELLESLEY COLLEGE	$25,129
SMITH COLLEGE	$24,946
COLBY COLLEGE	$24,946
OBERLIN COLLEGE	$24,934
SCIENCE SUMMER PROGRAM	$24,858
TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$15,013
HAGLEY MUSEUM	$10,046
WILLIAMS COLLEGE	$10,046
ARIZONA PUBLIC MEDIA	$10,046
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN AZ	$8,000
Individual grant recipient	$7,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT	$5,000

02The need

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, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 46 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+80%

Still filing today

74%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

WC
Wellesley College
9× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +63%
Oberlin College
9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +41%
SI
SSP INTERNATIONAL INC
6× · 2018–2023 · $146k · revenue +523%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $150k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $98k
TF
TMC FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $49k

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.

Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum

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Arizona Latin-American Medical Association

Unclassified

Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

Prescott College Inc

Together, we create interdisciplinary, experiential, and diverse learning environments that inspire future leaders to develop a healthy, just and sustainable world. we value our inclusive community, experiential and field-based learning, a…

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University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Southern Arizona Leadership Council Inc

To improve greater tucson and the state of arizona by bringing together resources and leadership to enhance the economic climate and quality of life in our communities.

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Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education

United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Tennis Association Southwest Section Inc

Our mission is to promote and develop the growth of tennis in the southwest

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Land and Water Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Milo 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

40 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. 40 of the 61 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

32/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,119,395Other$1,034,293Arts & Culture$290,030Environment$105,000Housing & Shelter$72,000Food & Nutrition$69,000Youth Development$27,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ37.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · The Stonewall Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong 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 Jade Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jade Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

10report 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.

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How do I get to Jade Tree Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jade Tree 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home