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Jett Travolta Foundation Inc

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.

$6k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$38k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Jett Travolta Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionEducationAnimalsArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$6k100%
FY20224$13k50%
FY20215$22k40%
FY20204$15k50%
FY201911$24k55%
FY201814$28k71%
FY201722$48kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$47kHealth$38kInternational$23kArts & Culture$13kRecreation & Sports$12kHuman Services$5kReligion$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($60k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jett Travolta Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNew Horizon Academy for Exceptional Students Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetThe Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHollywood Education & Literacy Project: $8,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisability Resources Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaw Works Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLillith Lidseen Performing Arts Assocation Inc: $1,330 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Rape Foundation: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Camps: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNever Say Never Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDream a World Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStreets Are for Everyone: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIslesboro Community Center: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Center for the Blind Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cornerstone School Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIslesboro Community Fund: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 24.

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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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Jett Travolta Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jett Travolta Foundation Inc 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.

About Jett Travolta Foundation Inc

How much does Jett Travolta Foundation Inc give?
Jett Travolta Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $6,280 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jett Travolta Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (30%), Health (25%), International (14%).
Who are Jett Travolta Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: LifeFlight Foundation ($20k), New Horizon Academy for Exceptional Students Inc ($15k), Citizens Commission on Human Rights ($13k).
Does Jett Travolta Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jett Travolta Foundation Inc 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 Jett Travolta Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Jett Travolta Foundation Inc based?
Jett Travolta Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 46 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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