· Private foundation
The George and Karen James Family Founda
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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REED COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| ROSEBACK MUSEUM & LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| EVERGLADES SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $5,000 |
| ROSEBACK MUSEUM & LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| GREENWICH CHAPLAINCY SVC | $500 |
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 (FY21–21, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +119% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Bucknell University3× · 2019–2021 · $81k · revenue +24%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +243%- BSBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +19%
- GEGENERATION ENTERPRISEone grant, 2019 · $25k
- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 46 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEST INC ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN JUMP START ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH CHAPLAINCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George and Karen James Family Founda funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Karen James Family Founda. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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