· Private foundation
John Templeton Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k85 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k146 grants · $21M
- $250k+186 grants · $111M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRE POUR LA RECHERCHE SUR L'ESPACE | $3,399,545 |
| ATLAS ECONOMIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,176,681 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | $2,001,684 |
| REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $1,894,638 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE | $1,776,010 |
| ST JOHNS COLLEGE DURHAM | $1,648,297 |
| INTERFAITH AMERICA | $1,619,530 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL | $1,530,026 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,514,578 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO | $1,500,000 |
| UNIVERSIDAD FRANCISCO MARROQUIN | $1,413,258 |
| WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION | $1,365,877 |
| CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC | $1,307,172 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $1,259,516 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $1,249,173 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 79% of grant dollars ($849M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 21% that went abroad ($220M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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
Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($220M)
44 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of John Templeton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
496 repeat relationships: 226 still active in FY2024, 270 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GAGARDEN ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2017–2022 · $15M · revenue +412% · 93% of their budget
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +51%- AEAtlas Economic Research Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +185%
Funded once
- FFFOLKLIGHT FILM CLUBone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · 100% of their budget
- DDDORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $2.2M · revenue -66%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1.5M
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.
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How this is measured
469 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. 469 of the 895 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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: Donors Trust Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Gates Foundation · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · The Seminar Network Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Lilly Endowment Inc · Charles Koch Institute · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Templeton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Templeton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- Boston Va Research Institute Inc: 64% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution Inc: 29% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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