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John Jordan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
88%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,006
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,006
Organizations funded a year
2 to 21
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$12k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations John Jordan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$11k0%
FY20238$18k88%
FY20222$16k50%
FY20214$28k50%
FY202021$318kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$131kPhilanthropy$73kEmployment$50kCommunity Improvement$35kCrime & Legal$21kAnimals$18kEducation$16kHuman Services$15kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Show all 22 grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John Jordan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County: $50,095 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHope Is Rising Lake County Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $48,229 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Rosa Chamber of Commerce: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPediatric Dental Initiative of the North Coast Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way of the Wine Country: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid of Sonoma County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHumane Society of Sonoma County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Sonoma County Fire Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetScopa Has a Dream Inc Dba Corazon Healdsburg: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHispanic Chamber of Commerce of So Co: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Bird Rescue Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWindsor Educational Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSonoma County Farm Bureau: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma-Marin: $2,205 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Matters: $1,103 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaw Enforcement Chaplaincy Service in Sonoma County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Sonoma County Community FoundationCA31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County · Trione Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Messing Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Wine Country

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 Jordan Foundation

How much does John Jordan Foundation give?
John Jordan Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $11,461 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does John Jordan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Philanthropy (19%), Employment (13%).
Who are John Jordan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County ($50k), Hope Is Rising Lake County Inc ($50k), Marine Toys for Tots Foundation ($48k).
Does John Jordan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John Jordan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John Jordan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Where is John Jordan Foundation based?
John Jordan Foundation is based in CA.

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 31 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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