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Jane & John Justin 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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.2M
Largest
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 2025.

Health$25MHuman Services$7.9MEducation$5.2MCommunity Improvement$4.9MRecreation & Sports$3.0MYouth Development$1.4MCivil Rights$1.2MFood & Nutrition$500kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.8M
$425,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$122M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cook Children's Health Foundation$3,200,000
Texas Christain University$1,020,250
Individual grant recipient$450,000
Women's Center of Tarrant County$425,000
Marbridge Foundation$405,000
SafeHaven of Tarrant County$300,000
Individual grant recipient$200,000
Alliance for Children$15,000
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, $6.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Marbridge Foundation: $1.1M → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $800k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $420k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $405k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $400k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $360k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $360k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $350k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $350k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $350k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $350k → 10%Marbridge Foundation: $350k → 10%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $300k → 11%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $130k → 11%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $165k → 11%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $160k → 11%SafeHaven of Tarrant County: $75k → 11%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$47M · 16 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$47M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+144%

Still filing today

50%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • TH
    Texas Health Resources
    4× · 2020–2023 · $8.6M · revenue +39%
  • CC
    Cook Children's Medical Center
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6.1M · revenue +123%
  • MF
    MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $616k
  • CS
    Citizens Support Group for Mounted Patrol
    one grant, 2018 · $526k
  • TA
    Tarrant Area Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +144%
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
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
2
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
3
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
4
Cook Children's Home Health

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
5
ContinueCare Hospital of Tyler Inc

It is the mission of longview continuecare hospital and continuecare hospital of tyler, inc. to enhance community health through service with compassion, care, accountability, respect and empathy.

Health
6
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
7
Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
8
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
9
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
10
Texas Children's Health Plan

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
11
Texas Children's Urgent Care

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
12
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cook Children's Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Texas Christian University. 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

9 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. 9 of the 23 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cook Children's Health Foundation: $9,600,000 · OtherCook Children's Health FoundationFort Worth Muesum of: $4,200,000 · OtherFort Worth Muesum ofTexas Christain University: $2,020,250 · OtherTexas Christain UniversityIndividual grant recipient: $705,500 · Other+11 more: $4,382,279 · Other+11 moreTexas Health Resources: $8,550,000 · HealthTexas Health ResourcesCook Children's Medical Center: $6,114,944 · HealthCook Children's Medical CenterTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $1,110,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY…MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,605,008 · Human ServicesMARBRIDGE FOUN…SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $830,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHAVEN OF T…TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $4,623,300 · EducationTEXAS CHRIS…Child Study Center: $420,000 · EducationChild Study…ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,170,000 · Civil Rights
Other$20,908,029Health$15,774,944Human Services$6,435,008Education$5,043,300Civil Rights$1,170,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas Health Resources: $8,550,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $6,114,944 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,605,008 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $4,623,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,170,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC: $1,110,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetSAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY: $830,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChild Study Center: $420,000 over 2y, 4.3% 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 Texas Health Resources ↗
  • Who funds Cook Children's Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MARBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF TARRANT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHAVEN OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Child Study Center ↗

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.

Amon G Carter FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jane & John Justin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane & John Justin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Jane & John Justin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jane & John Justin 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 23 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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