Texas · Private foundation
Jfa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $109k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Jfa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $109k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $58k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $89k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $86k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $29k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $17k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $25k | 15% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern University | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Memorial Park Conservancy Inc | $44,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Big Bend National Park | $29,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Menil Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $12,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Emergency Aid Coalition | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Coastal Prairie Conservancy | $8,075 | 4 | 0% |
| Hermann Park Conservancy | $8,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Peckerwood Gardens Conservation Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($162k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jfa Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Powell Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Susan Vaughan Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Hobby Family Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Jfa Foundation
- How much does Jfa Foundation give?
- Jfa Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $109,070 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jfa Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Education (15%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Jfa Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southwestern University ($70k), Memorial Park Conservancy Inc ($45k), The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($40k).
- Does Jfa Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jfa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jfa Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Powell Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc.
- Where is Jfa Foundation based?
- Jfa Foundation is based in TX.
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