Delaware · Private foundation
Jim and Dede Bartlett 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.
- $422k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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 | 27 | $422k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $539k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $727k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $1.0M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $2.0M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $1.8M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $846k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 59 | $891k | 19% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life Skills Internships | $2,000,000 | 2 | 100% |
| New York University | $501,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Domestic Violence Crisis Center | $340,000 | 7 | 3% |
| National Domestic Violence Hotline | $315,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Waveny Care Center Inc | $310,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Vassar College | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $270,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Staying Put in New Canaan Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Voices of September 11 Inc | $224,200 | 5 | 22% |
| Getabout Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 18% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation
- How much does Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation give?
- Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $422,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Human Services (12%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Life Skills Internships ($2.0M), New York University ($502k), Domestic Violence Crisis Center ($340k).
- Does Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jim and Dede Bartlett 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 Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Canaan Community Foundation Inc, Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, The Seelert Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation based?
- Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation is based in DE.
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