· Private foundation
The Catherine Jefferson Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $853k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVON OLD FARMS | $1,150,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $650,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $241,000 |
| OLD CHATHAM GOLF CLUB | $150,000 |
| DURHAM ACADEMY | $110,000 |
| ORMCF INC | $101,600 |
| ST PAUL'S SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $100,000 |
| HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TEWAARATON FDN | $40,000 |
| TEAM IMPACT | $40,000 |
| BRONX LACROSSE | $25,000 |
| THE PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HARLEM LACROSSE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +45%
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $551k · revenue +51%- TITEAM IMPACT INC4× · 2022–2025 · $215k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- RCRENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FUNDone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- FFFERRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $64k · revenue -344%
- 3F315 FDN INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 117 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TEWAARATON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds PURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD CHATHAM GOLF CLUB ↗
- Who funds PLL ASSISTS INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES WHO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INNER CITY LACROSSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FERRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds HEADSTRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN RESCUE 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.
Open a dossier: The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · The Roxe Foundation · Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Catherine Jefferson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Catherine Jefferson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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