How much does Jefferson Community Foundation give?

Jefferson Community Foundation reported 55 itemized grants totaling $1,390,048, out of $1,492,465 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jefferson Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (17%), Arts & Culture (13%), Crime & Legal (11%).

Who are Jefferson Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Habitat for Humanity International East ($484k), Bayside Housing & Services ($304k), Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates ($296k).

Does Jefferson Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jefferson Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Fed Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is Jefferson Community Foundation based?

Jefferson Community Foundation is based in WA.

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Washington · Community foundation

Jefferson Community Foundation

Jcf connects people, ideas, and resources to build a future of opportunity for all in jefferson county.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 55
Itemized grants FY2024: 45
Organizations funded FY2023: 13%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $14,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $184,562
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 45; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $6.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Jefferson Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	51	$1.4M	20%
FY2023	45	$721k	13%
FY2022	35	$782k	14%
FY2021	45	$981k	22%
FY2020	41	$1.1M	61%
FY2019	18	$174k	50%
FY2018	12	$127k	58%
FY2017	16	$169k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$904kArts & Culture$688kCrime & Legal$577kHuman Services$472kFood & Nutrition$415kHealth$393kYouth Development$368kPublic Safety & Disaster$349kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Habitat for Humanity International East	$483,600	6	6%
Bayside Housing & Services	$303,660	8	13%
Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates	$295,980	5	57%
Olympic Peninsula Young Mens Christian Assn	$258,490	8	2%
Strongertowns	$246,270	6	17%
Port Townsend School of the Arts DBA Northwind Art	$242,320	5	21%
Dove House Advocacy Services	$216,581	7	10%
National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc	$200,229	3	2%
Jefferson Healthcare Foundation	$193,966	4	12%
Jumping Mouse Childrens Center	$132,000	8	3%

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All grantees of Jefferson Community Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Habitat for Humanity International East	$483,600	6	6%
Bayside Housing & Services	$303,660	8	13%
Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates	$295,980	5	57%
Olympic Peninsula Young Mens Christian Assn	$258,490	8	2%
Strongertowns	$246,270	6	17%
Port Townsend School of the Arts DBA Northwind Art	$242,320	5	21%
Dove House Advocacy Services	$216,581	7	10%
National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc	$200,229	3	2%
Jefferson Healthcare Foundation	$193,966	4	12%
Jumping Mouse Childrens Center	$132,000	8	3%
Jefferson Land Trust	$129,880	6	1%
The Jefferson County Food Bank Association	$125,203	5	5%
Northwest Maritime Center	$111,000	8	1%
Jefferson County Farmers Market	$109,990	5	22%
Port Townsend Marine Science Center	$103,494	4	4%
Puget Sound Voyaging Society	$90,000	6	19%
Jefferson County Historical Society	$87,900	6	4%
Owl360	$84,400	3	8%
North Olympic Land Trust	$83,500	7	2%
First Step Family Support Center	$82,500	5	2%
Fort Worden Foundation	$80,000	3	39%
The Community Wellness Project	$77,668	5	33%
Olympic Neighbors	$72,500	6	4%
Transformations by Austin Angels	$68,000	5	1%
Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County	$67,130	4	12%
Jefferson County Medical Advocacy & Service Headquarters	$60,550	4	n/a
Olympic Housing Trust	$59,000	2	12%
Echho Ecumenical Christian Helping	$57,050	6	12%
Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers	$56,500	5	9%
Mike Beery Memorial Childrens Fund	$56,000	3	59%
Coyote Foundation	$54,500	5	37%
Foster Supports of Jefferson County	$51,545	4	n/a
Key City Players Key City Public Theatre	$49,000	3	5%
Community United Methodist Church	$45,500	5	n/a
Port Townsend School District 50	$42,000	1	n/a
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding	$41,500	2	1%
North Olympic Salmon Coalition	$41,250	4	1%
Edc Team Jefferson	$40,000	1	11%
Jefferson Clemente Foundation	$38,400	2	n/a
Jefferson Healthcare	$38,098	1	n/a
Jefferson Interfaith Action Coalition	$38,000	3	n/a
The Society of St Vincent de Paul East Jefferson County Conference	$37,800	4	8%
Cedarbrook Early Learning Center	$37,430	3	3%
Peacehealth Southwest Medical Center Foundation	$36,000	4	0%
Weekend Nutrition Foundation	$32,000	3	56%
Community Outreach Associationshelter Team	$30,710	4	n/a
Center for Ethical Leadership	$30,000	1	38%
Recyclery of Jefferson County	$26,500	3	7%
Food Bank Farm and Gardens of Jefferson County	$25,500	4	n/a
Lighthouse Mission Ministries	$25,000	1	n/a
Radio Port Townsend	$24,050	3	5%
Olympic Pride	$21,000	3	n/a
The Whidbey Institute	$20,000	1	1%
Sunfield Education Association	$20,000	2	1%
Equality New Mexico Foundation	$19,000	1	3%
Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship	$16,800	2	n/a
St Paul's Episcopal Church	$16,500	2	n/a
Gatheringplace	$16,000	1	13%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Olympic Community Action Programs	$13,500	1	0%
Port Townsend Ballet	$13,132	1	12%
Cedarroot	$13,000	2	5%
Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni	$12,500	1	0%
First United Methodist Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Washington Pulp & Paper Foundation Inc College of Forest Resources	$10,000	1	n/a
Gateway to Freedom	$10,000	1	n/a
Organic Seed Alliance	$10,000	1	1%
Northwest Watershed Institute	$10,000	1	2%
Usawa Consulting	$8,225	1	n/a
North Olympic Peninsula Resource Conservation & Development Council	$8,000	1	3%
Little League International	$8,000	1	0%
East Jefferson Little League	$7,740	1	n/a
University of Washington	$7,500	1	n/a
Humane Society of Jefferson County	$7,400	1	1%
Friends of Chimacum Schools Education Foundation	$7,380	1	4%
Centrum Foundation	$7,300	1	0%
Quilcene School District	$7,000	1	n/a
Indian Tribal Government-Enterprise	$7,000	1	n/a
Jefferson County Sheriffs Office	$6,500	1	n/a
Steel City Mens Chorus	$6,000	1	7%
Port Townsend Rotary Charitable Fund	$5,500	1	13%
Friends of the Santa Cruz River	$5,000	1	n/a
Olympic Music Festival	$5,000	1	2%
Port Townsend Film Society	$5,000	1	1%
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$5,000	1	0%

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Jefferson Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 62.

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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.

First Fed FoundationWA50.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Fed Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Whitney Family Foundation · Entelco Foundation · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · The Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation · I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation · School's Out Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Artsfund · Lucky Seven 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.

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About Jefferson Community Foundation

How much does Jefferson Community Foundation give?: Jefferson Community Foundation reported 55 itemized grants totaling $1,390,048, out of $1,492,465 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jefferson Community Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (17%), Arts & Culture (13%), Crime & Legal (11%).
Who are Jefferson Community Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Habitat for Humanity International East ($484k), Bayside Housing & Services ($304k), Jefferson County Immigrant Rights Advocates ($296k).
Does Jefferson Community Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jefferson Community Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Fed Foundation, Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Jefferson Community Foundation based?: Jefferson Community Foundation is based in WA.