New Jersey · Private foundation
John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated
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.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $913k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 45 | $98k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $97k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $82k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $150k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $104k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $43k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $55k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $70k | 54% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Donny Fund Inc | $90,642 | 4 | 68% |
| Holy Spirit High School | $45,840 | 6 | n/a |
| Villanova University | $21,065 | 7 | 0% |
| Tara Miller Melanoma Foundation | $16,557 | 8 | 0% |
| Stockton University Foundation | $15,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Franciscan Sisters of the Poor | $12,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $12,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Baby Basics of Collier County Inc | $12,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rosemont College of the Holy Child Jesus | $10,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 116 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 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.
Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Wimberg Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Foundation · Levine Family Foundation Inc · Gormley Family Foundation Inc · Brickman-Gross Family Foundation · America's Charities · Chubb Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated with peer funders
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About John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated
- How much does John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated give?
- John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated reported 48 grants totaling $98,573 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (33%), Health (20%), Education (17%).
- Who are John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Donny Fund Inc ($91k), Holy Spirit High School ($46k), Villanova University ($21k).
- Does John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated 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 John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oceanfirst Foundation, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Wimberg Family Foundation.
- Where is John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated based?
- John and Nancy Sykes Foundation Incorporated is based in NJ.
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