Texas · Private foundation
Jkj Charitable 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.
- $490k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Jkj Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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 | 18 | $490k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $576k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $573k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $851k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $1.7M | 82% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $815k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $1.7M | 55% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas Children's Hospital | $2,475,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Free Wheelchair Mission | $833,391 | 7 | 3% |
| Champion Ministries Inc | $600,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Search Homeless Services | $593,800 | 5 | n/a |
| Teen & Family Services | $421,672 | 8 | 7% |
| First Liberty Institute | $350,000 | 3 | 1% |
| College of Biblical Studies - Houston | $325,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Alpha Houston | $325,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Frontier Camp Inc | $294,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Alpha USA | $155,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jkj Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Methodist Hospital · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Adoption Is an Option · Wayne Duddlesten Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation · Halliburton Charitable Foundation · Stoller Foundation
How this is measured
About Jkj Charitable Foundation
- How much does Jkj Charitable Foundation give?
- Jkj Charitable Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $489,840 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jkj Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Religion (18%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Jkj Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Texas Children's Hospital ($2.5M), Free Wheelchair Mission ($833k), Champion Ministries Inc ($600k).
- Does Jkj Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jkj Charitable 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 Jkj Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Strake Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jkj Charitable Foundation based?
- Jkj Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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