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The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$6.0MEducation$3.8M
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
$29,400
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$144,751
UNIVERSITY OF VERONA$29,400
Individual grant recipient$25,000
INDIGO ART THERAPY 2024$6,374
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOPSITAL: $301k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $52k → 9%STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $363k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO ROBERT STROUD: $195k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $60k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $189k → 17%INDIGO ART THERAPY: $49k → 14%YALE UNIVERSITY: $68k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $65k → 11%PPD DEVELOPMENT: $87k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $977k → 8%SHEPERD CENTER: $90k → 13%CLEVELAND CLINIC: $78k → 17%CONSORCI INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIONS BIOMED: $75k → 7%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $161k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $51k → 9%STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - DR HAN: $113k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $182k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $87k → 14%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $105k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $68k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $499k → 8%SHEPERD CENTER: $78k → 13%CLEVELAND CLINIC: $49k → 17%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - DR CHITNIS: $122k → 16%STANDFORD UNVIVERSITY: $57k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $165k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - DR COOKUDCC - PROJECT 7: $340k → 8%SHEPHERD CENTER: $60k → 13%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - DR CHITNIS: $47k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - DR HAN: $56k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO ROBERT STROUD: $97k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $48k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - DR COOKUDCC - PROJECT 8: $268k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO ALAN VERKMAN - STUDY 1: $85k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $65k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - DR COOKUDCC - PROJECT 5: $118k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $80k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO ALAN VERKMAN - STUDY 2B: $55k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO ALAN VERKMAN - STUDY 2B: $46k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO ALAN VERKMAN - STUDY 1: $45k → 10%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNEL: $49k → 17%CEDARS-SINAI: $107k → 14%CEDARS SINAI: $58k → 14%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MED: $106k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $52k → 17%IPSOS PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $119k → 17%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

WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 30 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
27

Total granted

$7.1M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+76%

Still filing today

20%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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

  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $253k · revenue +59%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $165k · revenue +63%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $130k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • BA
    BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOPSITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $301k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - DR COOKUDCC - PROJECT 8
    one grant, 2020 · $268k
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $189k · revenue +76%
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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
5
Drexel University

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…

Education
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
12
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

13 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. 13 of the 62 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $2,141,322 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $520,152 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $488,456 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADOSTANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $444,927 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIVERSITY OF UTAH - DR COOKUDCC - PROJECT 7: $376,271 · OtherBRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOPSITAL: $301,377 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO ROBERT STROUD: $291,951 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - DENVER - DR BENNETT: $287,626 · Other+41 more: $3,412,101 · Other+41 moreNew York University: $188,676 · EducationNew York U…University of San Francisco: $181,822 · EducationUniversity…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $149,277 · EducationUNIVERSITY…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVE…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $96,082 · EducationJOHNS HOPK…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $83,714 · EducationICAHN SCHO…+2 more: $44,466 · EducationSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $253,436 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $165,050 · HealthACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $126,121 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $103,104 · Health+1 more: $220 · Health
Other$8,264,183Education$874,037Health$647,931

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $253,436 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $188,676 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $181,822 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $165,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $149,277 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC: $126,121 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $103,104 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $96,082 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $83,714 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $27,935 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $16,531 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES: $220 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 SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATED CURE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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