California · Private foundation
Sjl 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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $449k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Sjl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $89k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $102k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $84k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $67k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $442k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $33k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $71k | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Boston University | $206,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Northwood School | $190,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chapman University | $128,547 | 8 | 0% |
| ME&US Foundation | $48,000 | 2 | n/a |
| His Island Outreach | $33,800 | 6 | n/a |
| Music Academy of the West | $16,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Laguna Blanca School | $15,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Partners for Christian Education | $13,200 | 2 | 0% |
| United Church in Walpole | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lobero Theatre Foundation | $8,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($316k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sjl Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Sjl Foundation
- How much does Sjl Foundation give?
- Sjl Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $90,048 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sjl Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (76%), Religion (11%), International (5%).
- Who are Sjl Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston University ($206k), Northwood School ($190k), Chapman University ($129k).
- Does Sjl Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sjl Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sjl Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Mosher Foundation.
- Where is Sjl Foundation based?
- Sjl Foundation is based in CA.
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