Skip to content
Jenerosity Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jenerosity Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$254k
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of Jenerosity Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Jenerosity Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $254k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
3
’18
4
’19
8
’20
4
’21
3
’22
1
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$6.9MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$109kReligion$50kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$15kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2020 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USC$100,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
KQED$50,000
THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER$5,000
WE THE PROTESTERS$5,000
TAKE BACK THE COURT$5,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS$5,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES$1,500
SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY$1,000
CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $2k → 10%JCC - SAN FRANCISCO: $100k → 10%TEMPLE EMANU EL: $50k → 11%USC: $100k → 14%WE THE PROTESTERS: $5k → 17%THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $5k → 14%EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5k → 18%AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $6.9M → 13%CATAPULT FILM FUND: $20k → 10%JCC - San Francisco: $78k → 10%USC: $100k → 14%JCC - SAN FRANCISCO: $75k → 10%USC: $50k → 14%JCC - San Francisco: $69k → 10%MEN'S ULTIMATE AT USC: $400 → 14%JCC - SAN FRANCISCO: $22k → 10%JCC - SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS: $5k → 10%SF JAZZ: $3k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY: $150k → 10%SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY: $150k → 10%SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY: $85k → 10%SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY: $80k → 10%SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY: $75k → 10%CATAPULT FILM FUND: $15k → 10%SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISO FILM SOCIETY: $1k → 10%TAKE BACK THE COURT: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $38k → 10%UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $38k → 10%UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $33k → 10%KQED: $250k → 10%KQED: $50k → 10%KQED: $50k → 10%KQED: $50k → 10%KQED: $50k → 10%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 7 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$1.8M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+74%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCivil RightsEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SF
    San Francisco Film Society
    7× · 2017–2023 · $551k · revenue +14%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $109k · revenue +21%
  • CF
    Catapult Film Fund
    2× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +145%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +74%
  • UF
    UNDOCUFUND FIRE RELIEF
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
3
Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture
4
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
5
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
6
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
7
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

—
8
San Francisco Independent Film Festival

SF IndieFest presents important independent narrative, documentary, and short films from around the world.

Arts & Culture
9
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
10
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
12
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Jazz Organization. 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

14 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. 14 of the 21 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $6,928,579 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropySan Francisco Film Society: $551,000 · OtherSan Francisco Fi…Individual grant recipient: $352,950 · OtherIndividual grant…USC: $250,000 · OtherUSCTEMPLE EMANU EL: $50,000 · Other+6 more: $40,400 · OtherKQED INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureCatapult Film Fund: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,470 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $108,500 · EducationTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $5,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Civil RightsWE THE PROTESTERS INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$6,930,079Other$1,244,350Arts & Culture$513,470Education$108,500Civil Rights$15,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $6,928,579 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $551,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetKQED INC: $450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCatapult Film Fund: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSan Francisco Center for Psychoanal: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE THE PROTESTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $3,470 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jenerosity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jenerosity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Jenerosity Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jenerosity 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 21 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Jenerosity’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home