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Jolyn Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Jolyn Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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
FY2025still arriving25$232k4%
FY202424$202k0%
FY202326$226k12%
FY202225$223k16%
FY202121$177k29%
FY202020$177k20%
FY201915$165k13%
FY201815$153k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$343kFood & Nutrition$291kEnvironment$266kHealth$167kHousing & Shelter$162kCivil Rights$103kInternational$87kYouth Development$86kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Jolyn Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc$270,00090%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$162,00090%
Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation$127,50091%
Earthjustice$77,50090%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$62,50070%
Clarkson University$25,00050%
New River Land Trust$22,50091%
Roots & Wings Foundation$20,00021%
Israel Emergency Alliance$15,00030%
Sierra Club Foundation$10,00020%
Pbs Foundation$10,00010%
Team Leo Animal Rescue$8,2506n/a
Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society Inc$5,65090%
New River Community Action Inc$87510%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$87510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($878k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jolyn Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $270,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $162,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVisions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation: $127,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetEarthjustice: $77,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $62,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetClarkson University: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew River Land Trust: $22,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetRoots & Wings Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPbs Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDakin Pioneer Valley Humane Society Inc: $5,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNew River Community Action Inc: $875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc: $875 over 1y, 0.0% 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 14.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Jolyn Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Jolyn Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Jolyn Foundation Inc

How much does Jolyn Foundation Inc give?
Jolyn Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $239,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Jolyn Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Environment (15%).
Who are Jolyn Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ($270k), Homes for Our Troops Inc ($162k), Visions and Pathways a Nj Nonprofit Corporation ($128k).
Does Jolyn Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jolyn Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jolyn Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Jolyn Foundation Inc based?
Jolyn Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 39 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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