Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Jackson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $800k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 150
- Grants FY2025
- 104
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 104 to 171
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations The Jackson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 149 | $785k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 104 | $512k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 138 | $682k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 132 | $654k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 133 | $567k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 129 | $921k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 168 | $754k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 171 | $789k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Symphony Association | $205,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Portland Art Museum | $184,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Portland Center Stage | $170,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Oregon Arts Watch | $136,000 | 8 | 15% |
| Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc | $132,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Oregon Ballet Theatre | $130,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Oregon Food Bank | $127,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Portland Opera Association Inc | $125,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Oregon Historical Society | $114,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Literary Arts Inc | $104,500 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 270 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jackson 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: Juan Young Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Jackson Foundation
- How much does The Jackson Foundation give?
- The Jackson Foundation reported 150 grants totaling $800,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 104 and 171 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jackson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Education (12%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are The Jackson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oregon Symphony Association ($205k), Portland Art Museum ($184k), Portland Center Stage ($170k).
- Does The Jackson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jackson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jackson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Juan Young Trust, The Autzen Foundation, Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust.
- Where is The Jackson Foundation based?
- The Jackson Foundation is based in WI.
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