Missouri · Private foundation
Jefferson 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.
- $7.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 219
- Grants FY2024
- 180
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $22,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $345,488
- Organizations funded a year
- 117 to 180
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $197M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Jefferson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $481k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 198 | $7.7M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 180 | $7.6M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 179 | $8.3M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 168 | $6.6M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 153 | $7.1M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 138 | $7.2M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 125 | $7.2M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 117 | $6.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Health Foundation Jefferson | $4,314,814 | 8 | 65% |
| Chestnut Health Systems Inc | $2,800,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Saint Louis Counseling Inc | $2,641,461 | 8 | 11% |
| Upward Smiles Inc | $2,547,795 | 8 | 16% |
| Disability Resource Association Inc | $1,490,890 | 8 | 4% |
| Pony Bird Inc | $1,351,563 | 8 | 4% |
| Jefferson College Foundation Inc | $1,057,240 | 8 | 20% |
| Jefferson County Community Partnership | $1,047,380 | 8 | 20% |
| Provident Inc | $962,450 | 7 | 4% |
| The Covering House | $791,557 | 8 | 15% |
Show all 174 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 134 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jefferson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · East Missouri Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jefferson Foundation
- How much does Jefferson Foundation give?
- Jefferson Foundation reported 219 grants totaling $7,672,546 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 117 and 180 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jefferson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
- Who are Jefferson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mercy Health Foundation Jefferson ($4.3M), Chestnut Health Systems Inc ($2.8M), Saint Louis Counseling Inc ($2.6M).
- Does Jefferson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jefferson 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 Jefferson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company.
- Where is Jefferson Foundation based?
- Jefferson Foundation is based in MO.
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