· Private foundation
Joel Dean 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $217k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERA SAN JOSE | $112,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $71,000 |
| BEREA COLLEGE | $52,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $27,000 |
| FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS OF MARYMOUNT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PARIS | $26,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CAMP JOY FOUNDATION | $11,050 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $10,000 |
| WHITMAN COLLEGE | $9,000 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION DEFENSE FUND | $7,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $7,500 |
| AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $7,000 |
| HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $6,500 |
| MONTALVO ARTS CENTER | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OSOPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $611k · revenue +62%
Oberlin College6× · 2020–2025 · $382k · revenue +19%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2025 · $157k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY WHITING SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2021 · $75k
- TLTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
- TITHE ISB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $7k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Education and Research
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 119 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds San Jose Jazz ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNTERMYER GARDENS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN ACRES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ FORUM ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN COLLEGE PREP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
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: Ibm International Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Creates · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Kent and Rita Norton Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joel Dean Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joel Dean Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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