Delaware · Private foundation
The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family
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.
- $45k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $532
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $672k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 50 | $44k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $34k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $39k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $30k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $24k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association | $18,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The International School of San Francisco | $14,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | $12,957 | 6 | 0% |
| Macalester College | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $7,530 | 6 | 0% |
| Ethiopia Reads | $5,473 | 5 | 1% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $4,950 | 6 | 0% |
| The Z Space Studio | $4,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $3,915 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $3,803 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bernard Osher Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family
- How much does The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family give?
- The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family reported 51 grants totaling $44,791 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (9%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association ($19k), The International School of San Francisco ($15k), Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ($13k).
- Does The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family 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 Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation.
- Where is The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family based?
- The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family is based in DE.
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