Virginia · Private foundation
The James Family 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.
- $10M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2024
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 63 to 98
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $224M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The James Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $766k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 66 | $10M | 45% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $12M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $11M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 75 | $10M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 84 | $8.7M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 94 | $7.6M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 98 | $7.5M | 59% |
| FY2017 | 84 | $6.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The James Family Charitable Trust | $34,325,123 | 5 | 27% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $6,263,040 | 7 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $3,335,900 | 8 | 2% |
| Woods Hole Institute | $3,251,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc | $2,352,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Partnership for Education Advancement Inc | $1,918,000 | 3 | 100% |
| Trout Unlimited Inc | $1,734,245 | 7 | 1% |
| Garrison Forest School Inc | $1,726,100 | 6 | 4% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $1,202,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $1,188,431 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 198 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 110 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The James Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 182 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The James Family Charitable Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations
How this is measured
Compare The James Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The James Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does The James Family Charitable Foundation give?
- The James Family Charitable Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $10,394,295 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 63 and 98 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The James Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (48%), Arts & Culture (13%), Education (10%).
- Who are The James Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The James Family Charitable Trust ($34M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($6.3M), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($3.3M).
- Does The James Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The James Family Charitable 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 James Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Family Charitable Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The James Family Charitable Foundation based?
- The James Family Charitable Foundation is based in VA.
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