How much does Jefferson Scholarship Fund give?

Jefferson Scholarship Fund reported 23 grants totaling $183,167 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jefferson Scholarship Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Science & Tech (1%), Employment (1%).

Who are Jefferson Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: George Fox University ($54k), Lane Community College ($24k), Willamette University ($24k).

Does Jefferson Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jefferson Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jefferson Scholarship Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West Scholarship Fnd, Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation, Leo Adler Trust.

Where is Jefferson Scholarship Fund based?

Jefferson Scholarship Fund is based in WI.

Foundation Dossiers

Wisconsin · Private foundation

Jefferson Scholarship Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$183k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 23
Grants FY2024: 32
Organizations funded FY2023: 31%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $3,400
Largest grant, FY2024: $40,292
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 36; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $2.7M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Jefferson Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationOther

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	22	$180k	23%
FY2023	32	$127k	31%
FY2022	33	$125k	45%
FY2021	30	$176k	40%
FY2020	15	$79k	13%
FY2019	36	$103k	47%
FY2018	26	$102k	50%
FY2017	20	$88k	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.

Education$973kScience & Tech$8kEmployment$5kArts & Culture$5kReligion$1k

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
George Fox University	$54,300	8	0%
Lane Community College	$23,875	6	n/a
Willamette University	$23,600	7	0%
Pacific University	$20,300	7	0%
Linn-Benton Community College	$15,500	5	n/a
Grand Canyon University	$14,850	3	0%
The University of Puget Sound	$9,900	4	0%
The College of Idaho Inc	$8,500	3	0%
Carroll College	$8,000	3	0%
Seattle Pacific University	$7,400	2	0%

Show all 36 grantees

All grantees of Jefferson Scholarship Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
George Fox University	$54,300	8	0%
Lane Community College	$23,875	6	n/a
Willamette University	$23,600	7	0%
Pacific University	$20,300	7	0%
Linn-Benton Community College	$15,500	5	n/a
Grand Canyon University	$14,850	3	0%
The University of Puget Sound	$9,900	4	0%
The College of Idaho Inc	$8,500	3	0%
Carroll College	$8,000	3	0%
Seattle Pacific University	$7,400	2	0%
Cleary University	$5,000	1	0%
Pacific Northwest College of Art	$4,600	3	0%
Waynesburg University	$4,500	3	0%
Lassen Community College	$4,000	2	n/a
Loyola Marymount University	$4,000	2	0%
University of Portland	$3,900	1	0%
Grove City College	$3,400	1	0%
Concordia University St Paul	$3,000	1	0%
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc	$2,700	2	0%
Bacone College	$2,550	1	n/a
Multnomah University	$2,000	1	0%
glendale community college	$2,000	1	n/a
Emory University	$2,000	1	n/a
University of Mary	$1,500	1	0%
Claremont McKenna College	$1,500	1	0%
Lewis & Clark College	$1,500	1	0%
Portland Fashion Institute	$1,000	1	n/a
The Legacy Funds of Holy Names University	$1,000	1	0%
Aidvantageus Dept Education	$1,000	1	n/a
Linfield University	$1,000	1	0%
Oregon Tech Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Clark College	$1,000	1	n/a
Westminster University	$1,000	1	0%
Kjzzkbaq (Through Maricopa Community Colleges)	$1,000	1	n/a
Warner Pacific University	$1,000	1	0%
California State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($735k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jefferson Scholarship Fund supplied at peak.

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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 26.

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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.

West Scholarship FndMN15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Scholarship Fnd · Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation · Leo Adler Trust · The Renaissance Foundation · Riggs Student Scholarship Fund · Walter E & Helen W Bruckert · Amy Heryford Ousley and James Heryford Ousley · Dale Krueger Scholarship · The Oregon Community Foundation · Juan Young Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Tulsa Community 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 Scholarship Fund

How much does Jefferson Scholarship Fund give?: Jefferson Scholarship Fund reported 23 grants totaling $183,167 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jefferson Scholarship Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Science & Tech (1%), Employment (1%).
Who are Jefferson Scholarship Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: George Fox University ($54k), Lane Community College ($24k), Willamette University ($24k).
Does Jefferson Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jefferson Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jefferson Scholarship Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West Scholarship Fnd, Walter & Mary a Stastny Charitable Foundation, Leo Adler Trust.
Where is Jefferson Scholarship Fund based?: Jefferson Scholarship Fund is based in WI.