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Ralph and Jeanne Jennings Family Foundation at a glance

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Ralph and Jeanne Jennings Family 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$126kReligion$29kYouth Development$28kHuman Services$22kPublic Benefit$8kCivil Rights$6kInternational$4kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$580k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillsdale College Scholarship$10,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Basilica of St John$1,000
Alliance Defending Freedom$1,000
EWTN$500
Catholic Vote Educational Fund (LOOP)$500
Institute of Religion & Public Life (First Things)$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Alliance Defending Freedom: $2k → 11%Napa Institute: $4k → 9%Prager University: $1k → 14%Tunnels 2 Towers Foundation: $5k → 11%The Thomistic Institute: $1k → 14%Dordt College: $10k → 8%Twin Lakes Bible Camp: $1k → 9%Joshua Christian: $2k → 10%Stonebrook Community Church: $3k → 17%Hillsdale College: $15k → 14%EWTN: $1k → 16%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%Regina Caeli Academy for Veritatis Splendor: $1k → 13%FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF MALVERN: $1k → 12%Twin Lakes Bible Camp: $1k → 14%Young Americas Foundation: $5k → 6%LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $2k → 7%Alliance Defending Freedom: $2k → 11%Prager University: $1k → 14%Dordt University: $10k → 8%Twin Lakes Bible Camp: $1k → 9%Joshua Christian: $2k → 10%Hillsdale College Scholarship: $10k → 14%Samaritans Purse: $2k → 21%Young Americas Foundation (YAF): $2k → 6%Leadership Institute: $2k → 7%Alliance Defending Freedom: $1k → 11%Prager University: $1k → 14%Dordt College: $10k → 8%Joshua Christian Academy: $2k → 10%Hillsdale College 4 Pillars Classical Ed: $10k → 14%Young Americas Foundation (YAF): $2k → 6%Alliance Defending Freedom: $1k → 11%Dordt College: $10k → 8%Joshua Christian Academy: $2k → 10%Hillsdale College Scholarship: $10k → 14%Young Americas Foundation (YAF): $2k → 6%Gary Sinise Foundation: $5k → 14%Joshua Christian Academy: $2k → 10%Hillsdale College Scholarship: $10k → 14%Hillsdale College 4 Pillars Classical Ed: $10k → 14%JOSHUA CHRISTIAN: $1k → 10%Hillsdale College Scholarship: $5k → 14%St Marys of Nazareth DSM: $2k → 10%Hillsdale College Scholarship: $5k → 14%Hillsdale College 4 Pillars Classical Ed: $5k → 14%Basilica of St John: $3k → 10%Hillsdale College 4 Pillars Classical Ed: $4k → 14%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

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
$210k · 25 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$210k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+53%

Still filing today

48%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionPublic BenefitEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DU
    DORDT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +61%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +75%
  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • T2
    Tunnels 2 Towers Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SC
    STONEBROOK COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • FC
    FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF MALVERN
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
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
2
The Institute On Religion and Public Life Inc

The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…

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3
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
6
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
7
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
8
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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9
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
10
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
11
The Institute of World Politics

The institute of world politics is a graduate school of national security and international affairs, dedicated to developing leaders with a sound understanding of international realities and the ethical conduct of statecraft, based on…

International
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
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 Schola Cantus Angelorum. 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

16 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. 16 of the 42 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hillsdale College Scholarship: $40,000 · OtherHillsdale College ScholarshipHillsdale College 4 Pillars Classical Ed: $29,000 · OtherHillsdale College 4 Pillars Classical EdTunnel 2 Towers: $15,000 · OtherTunnel 2 TowersBASILICA OF ST JOHN: $7,500 · OtherYoung Americas Foundation (YAF): $7,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,200 · OtherTunnels 2 Towers Foundation: $5,000 · Other+20 more: $27,945 · Other+20 moreDORDT UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationDORDT UNIVERSITYHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $4,500 · EducationJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $16,500 · PhilanthropyTHE NAPA INSTITUTE: $4,900 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,500 · ReligionUltramontane Associates Inc: $1,780 · ReligionINSTITUTE OF CATHOLIC CULTURE: $1,750 · ReligionSCHOLA CANTUS ANGELORUM: $1,570 · ReligionETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $1,500 · ReligionALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $6,500 · Civil RightsLeadership Institute: $4,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $500 · Public BenefitETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $250 · Public Benefit
Other$142,645Education$59,500Philanthropy$16,500Religion$15,000Civil Rights$6,500Public Benefit$4,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDORDT UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAPA INSTITUTE: $4,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUltramontane Associates Inc: $1,780 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CATHOLIC CULTURE: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLA CANTUS ANGELORUM: $1,570 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC: $250 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 DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
  • Who funds Ultramontane Associates Inc ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF CATHOLIC CULTURE ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLA CANTUS ANGELORUM ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ralph and Jeanne Jennings Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralph and Jeanne Jennings Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 42 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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