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Jaffe Foundation at a glance

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Jaffe 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$751k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$3.3MHuman Services$525kPhilanthropy$245kHealth$150kArts & Culture$55kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $414k
  • $250k+1 grant · $751k
$63,133
Median grant
6
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Teaching Lab$750,623
Friends Center for Children$100,000
Paloma Learning Inc$100,000
Rutgers The State University$63,133
Kent State University$50,964
Guilford Foundation$50,317
Women's Health Research at Yale$50,000
University of Florida Foundation$48,020
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 (FY20–24, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 10%Friends Center for Children: $100k → 12%Friends Center for Children: $100k → 12%Friends Center for Children: $75k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 12%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

VT
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$2.5M
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+63%

Still filing today

56%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $851k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BC
    BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +47%
  • TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $430k · revenue +46%
  • FC
    FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +364%

Funded once

  • Z
    ZEARNgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +63%
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +14%
  • NH
    NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +34%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
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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5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
10
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester Polytechnic Institute; the most unlike its peers is Women & Family Life Center Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $1,005,915 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATIONTEACHING LAB: $750,623 · EducationTEACHING LABTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $430,003 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITYZEARN: $100,000 · Education+2 more: $121,040 · EducationTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC: $245,317 · OtherTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATIO…Women's Health Research at Yale: $150,401 · OtherWomen's Health Researc…RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $126,267 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIV…KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: $101,928 · OtherKENT STATE UNIVERSITYPaloma Learning Inc: $100,000 · OtherPaloma Learning IncWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $60,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC …Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…LEAP: $40,055 · OtherFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $350,114 · Human ServicesFRIENDS C…WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $175,137 · Arts & CultureNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC: $50,184 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,040 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Education$2,907,581Other$873,968Human Services$350,114Arts & Culture$230,361Community Improvement$25,000

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 budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $1,005,915 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTEACHING LAB: $750,623 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $430,003 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $350,114 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC: $245,317 over 5y, 11% of budgetWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $175,137 over 2y, 18% of budgetZEARN: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $96,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC: $50,184 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDIGITAL HARBOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIC INNOVATION IN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWNET: $5,040 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Eder Family Foundatio…Newalliance Foundatio…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eder Family Foundation IncCT15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eder Family Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jaffe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jaffe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Friends Center for Children Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Digital Harbor Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Zearn: 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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