· Private foundation
Jej Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILIES SERVICES - IOWA | $10,000 |
| CHILD SERVE | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $5,000 |
| DMARC | $4,000 |
| AHEINZ57 PET RESCUE & TRANSPORT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Jej Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in IA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +125% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PJPUPPY JAKE FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $119k · revenue -14%
- CICHILDSERVE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +125%
- MAMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $3k
Funded once
SHARE OUR STRENGTHone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +14%- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +46%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Our mission is to deliver hope to suffering children by equipping local churches for gospel-centered mercy ministry.
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.
Every meal's mission is to fight child hunger through community and school partnerships.
We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…
End hunger together.
Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)
How this is measured
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 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jej Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jej Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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