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John a James Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$138k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$120kEducation$26kFood & Nutrition$25kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$10kEnvironment$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

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.

DTE Energy FoundationMI13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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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About John a James Foundation

How much does John a James Foundation give?
John a James Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $145,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does John a James Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (61%), Education (13%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are John a James Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Tiffin University ($20k), Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan ($15k), Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan ($10k).
Does John a James Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John a James Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is John a James Foundation based?
John a James Foundation is based in MI.

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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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