Colorado · Private foundation
Jennifer Woods Tierney 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.
- $98k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to East Bay Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $98k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 22 | $93k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $55k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $50k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $92k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $90k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $89k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $80k | 11% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $105k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pridepads Africa Inc | $63,000 | 6 | 25% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $29,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Indian Peaks Working Group | $22,500 | 4 | n/a |
| International Wilderness Leadership Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Coffee Trust | $18,500 | 6 | 3% |
| International Elephant Foundation | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Plastic Oceans International | $17,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($151k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Longmont Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · Boulder Valley Rotary Community Foundation · Collins Foundation · John R Woods Foundation · AEC Trust · Anschutz Family Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation
How this is measured
About Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation
- How much does Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation give?
- Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $97,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), International (14%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pridepads Africa Inc ($63k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($40k), The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ($30k).
- Does Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jennifer Woods Tierney 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 Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Boulder County, Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation.
- Where is Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation based?
- Jennifer Woods Tierney Foundation is based in CO.
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