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John-Christophe Schlesinger Foundation at a glance

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John-Christophe Schlesinger 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.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$572kHealth$445kEducation$144kRecreation & Sports$103kHuman Services$39kPhilanthropy$24kReligion$21kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k42 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $235k
$1,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL$40,000
LITTLE SISTERS FUND$25,000
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT$25,000
HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT$25,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
ONE DEGREE FORWARD$25,000
FRIENDS OF HIDDEN PEAK$18,750
KAHAKUKAHI FOUNDATION$11,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$10,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS$10,000
NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$7,500
BOOGIE ON WHEELCHAIR VANS$6,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $500 → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $168 → 10%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $1k → 14%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $25k → 8%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $25k → 8%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $25k → 8%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $25k → 8%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $25k → 8%HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $20k → 8%DOROT: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 58 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
16

Total granted

$1.3M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+40%

Still filing today

67%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +43%
  • HO
    HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +30%
  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • PM
    PROBED MEDICAL USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $44k
  • CI
    CENTRE INTERNATIONAL D'ANTIBES
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • TS
    The Stamford Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Silverfork Skimo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ONE DEGREE FORWARD INC: $115,000 · OtherONE DEGREE FORWARD INCWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $59,500 · OtherWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INCPROBED MEDICAL USA INC: $43,863 · OtherPROBED MEDICAL USA INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $37,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEFriends of Hidden Peak: $21,298 · OtherKAHAKUKAHI FOUNDATION: $20,500 · Other+42 more: $170,046 · Other+42 moreYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $185,000 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITALST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $74,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $37,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT C…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,550 · Health+5 more: $34,833 · Health+5 moreHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $140,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT P…LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $90,000 · InternationalLITTLE SISTERS FUND …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalHUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $145,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN OUTRE…+3 more: $2,168 · Human ServicesST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $24,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 · EducationLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $6,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC: $6,000 · Education+4 more: $5,700 · EducationSNOWBIRD SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $17,689 · Recreation & SportsHORIZONS INC: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsSilverfork Skimo Foundation: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $13,300 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $8,300 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$467,207Health$411,883International$261,500Human Services$147,168Education$104,700Recreation & Sports$29,189Philanthropy$24,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $185,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT: $145,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $90,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $74,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $59,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Hidden Peak: $21,298 over 2y, 18% of budgetSNOWBIRD SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $17,689 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $15,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $13,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $8,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $8,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ALTA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRandom Acts of Flowers: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER: $4,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSilverfork Skimo Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlta Community Enrichment: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MPS SOCIETY INC: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $668 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN OUTREACH PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Hidden Peak ↗
  • Who funds SNOWBIRD SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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.

American Express Foun…The Gilbane Family Fo…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…
American Express FoundationNY13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · The Gilbane Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John-Christophe Schlesinger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John-Christophe Schlesinger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 84 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home