How much does The J2 Foundation give?

The J2 Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $72,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The J2 Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (24%), International (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Who are The J2 Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Burn Foundation ($80k), American Friends of Israeli Navy Seals Inc ($42k), Venice Community Housing Corporation ($34k).

Does The J2 Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The J2 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 The J2 Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Annenberg Foundation.

Where is The J2 Foundation based?

The J2 Foundation is based in CA.

The J2 Foundation

The J2 Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The J2 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.

$72k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$144kInternational$104kArts & Culture$80kHousing & Shelter$47kCivil Rights$35kHuman Services$34kEducation$33kEnvironment$27kOther$0

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $62k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$885k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHILDREN BURN FOUNDATION	$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL NAVY SEALS	$9,000
CENTER THEATER GROUP	$7,500
AMERICARES	$6,600
FEEDING AMERICA	$6,600
JEWISH GRADUATE STUDENT INITIATIVE	$6,200
OUR HOUSE	$6,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES	$5,000
PING PONG FOR GOOD CO EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION	$3,000
UCLA FOUNDATION	$3,000
CONNECTING A CARING COMMUNITY	$2,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$2,000
JEWISH FEDERATION	$1,650
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND	$1,250
SOLE BROTHERS	$1,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The J2 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The J2 Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$568k · 38 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$568k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+22%

Still filing today

68%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

CB
CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +322%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC
6× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +677%
VC
VENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION
5× · 2019–2023 · $34k · revenue +759%

Funded once

XP
X PRIZE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +159%
U
UCLA
one grant, 2022 · $4k
GL
GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -17%

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.

University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy

University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education

Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International

Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International

The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 57 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

33/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$353,648International$111,866Education$46,900Housing & Shelter$33,500Human Services$21,777Food & Nutrition$20,695Youth Development$15,000

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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA25.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Annenberg Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Kobor Family Foundation · Peter H and Marietta K Bach Charitable Trust Conservatorship · The Marilyn and Jeffrey Katzenberg Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Rose Hills Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The J2 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The J2 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home