California · Private foundation
The Belle Jar Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Belle Jar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 22 | $1.2M | 41% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $794k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $279k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $357k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $450k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $449k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $434k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | $515,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Local Enterprise Assistance Fund | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Teach for America Inc | $154,550 | 7 | 0% |
| Ten Strands | $150,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ron Brown Scholar Fund | $150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc | $72,775 | 1 | 5% |
| Volunteers in Asia | $65,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh Inc | $49,500 | 7 | n/a |
| The Education Trust Inc | $46,538 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Belle Jar 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Belle Jar Foundation
- How much does The Belle Jar Foundation give?
- The Belle Jar Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,273,587 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Belle Jar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Youth Development (13%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are The Belle Jar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula ($515k), Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County ($250k), Local Enterprise Assistance Fund ($250k).
- Does The Belle Jar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Belle Jar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Belle Jar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Bright Funds Foundation, The Sobrato Family Foundation.
- Where is The Belle Jar Foundation based?
- The Belle Jar Foundation is based in CA.
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