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John Templeton Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134M
Granted FY2024still arriving
426
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$3.4M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$385MScience & Tech$194MSocial Science$103MReligion$90MHealth$80MArts & Culture$53MPhilanthropy$46MCivil Rights$33MOther$0
02FY2024 · 426 grants

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
$217,464
Median grant
29
States reached
$3.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%CURA FOUNDATION: $675k → 9%MORE IN COMMON INC: $234k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250k → 17%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $658k → 17%BRAVER ANGELS INC: $597k → 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
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 21% of all-years giving ($220M)

44 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$113M · 323 grants
Canada$14M · 57 grants
France$11M · 17 grants
Austria$11M · 23 grants
Germany$9.4M · 37 grants
Israel$9.2M · 37 grants
Denmark$5.2M · 18 grants
Australia$4.7M · 31 grants
Guatemala$4.6M · 8 grants
Brazil$3.7M · 28 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

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.

John Templeton Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 22% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$894M · 496 repeat orgs$64M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

496
322

Total granted

$894M
$46M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+15%

Still filing today

51%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyInternationalScience & TechOther
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

  • GA
    GARDEN ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $15M · revenue +412% · 93% of their budget
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +51%
  • AE
    Atlas Economic Research Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · 100% of their budget
  • DD
    DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2.2M · revenue -66%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one 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.

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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Science for Monks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

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.

63
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
74
Early backer (in before they grew)
457/469
Grantees still filing
312/469
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: $19,494,088 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $16,194,726 · Other+117 more: $402,768,677 · Other+117 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $48,552,010 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard Coll…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $14,973,002 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $14,808,726 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $14,351,106 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $14,321,022 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $10,435,060 · Education+44 more: $168,460,772 · Education+44 moreGARDEN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,498,999 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $9,910,898 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5,625,600 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $3,610,000 · PhilanthropyDORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $2,200,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $14,134,042 · Science & TechAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $8,936,204 · Science & TechLSST INC: $6,109,348 · Science & TechCENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE INC: $3,116,000 · Science & TechSCIENCE FOR MONKS: $1,481,427 · Science & TechNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $6,348,812 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC: $4,695,228 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $2,703,554 · Arts & CultureFOLKLIGHT FILM CLUB: $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE KUHN FOUNDATION: $2,408,139 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,360,437 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,212,843 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $1,867,766 · Arts & CultureFREE TO CHOOSE NETWORK INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,430,396 · Arts & CultureAtlas Economic Research Foundation: $14,965,178 · Social ScienceMercatus Center Inc: $6,969,542 · Social SciencePROSOCIAL WORLD: $2,817,685 · Social ScienceFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $1,800,698 · Social ScienceTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,859,720 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $5,683,917 · HealthGlobal Viral dba Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems: $4,280,059 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $3,979,457 · HealthRush University Medical Center: $3,026,118 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $1,481,295 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,472,940 · Health
Other$438,457,491Education$285,901,698Philanthropy$36,845,497Science & Tech$33,777,021Arts & Culture$28,027,175Social Science$26,553,103Health$25,783,506

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $48,552,010 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,498,999 over 3y, 93% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $14,973,002 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAtlas Economic Research Foundation: $14,965,178 over 8y, 22% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $14,808,726 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $14,351,106 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $14,321,022 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $14,134,042 over 8y, 46% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $10,435,060 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $9,910,898 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $8,968,707 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $8,939,018 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $8,936,204 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetNorthwestern University: $8,829,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $8,728,124 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE: $8,054,632 over 6y, 42% of budgetTHE CHARACTER LAB INC: $7,767,258 over 7y, 72% of budgetTEMPLETON FOUNDATION INC: $7,322,290 over 5y, 94% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $7,254,335 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMercatus Center Inc: $6,969,542 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $6,719,004 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $6,359,205 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $6,348,812 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetEmory University: $6,249,516 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $6,135,618 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLSST INC: $6,109,348 over 4y, 30% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $5,859,720 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $5,683,917 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5,625,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,222,234 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetTHE BIOLOGOS FOUNDATION INC: $5,064,714 over 8y, 70% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,026,997 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERITAS FORUM INC: $4,916,958 over 8y, 25% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $4,914,452 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $4,862,496 over 6y, 90% of budgetNATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC: $4,695,228 over 7y, 25% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $4,448,734 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $4,318,196 over 6y, 14% of budgetGlobal Viral dba Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems: $4,280,059 over 4y, 81% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $4,258,001 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTrinity International University: $4,163,270 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,112,707 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY INC: $4,047,525 over 3y, 67% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $3,979,457 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,919,041 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLUMEN CHRISTI INSTITUTE: $3,882,779 over 5y, 73% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPLIED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION INC: $3,779,997 over 2y, 62% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $3,757,488 over 5y, 7.1% 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
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  • Who funds Atlas Economic Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC VENTURES DBA COGENERATE ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARACTER LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds TEMPLETON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LSST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗

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.

Donors Trust IncVA36× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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 895 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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