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.

The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family

The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$89kArts & Culture$20kHealth$19kPublic Benefit$19kInternational$15kEnvironment$13kCivil Rights$13kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$532

Median grant

States reached

$672k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GRINNELL COLLEGE	$5,000
SPUR	$2,500
THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRAN	$2,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$2,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER	$2,250
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND	$1,500
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM	$1,500
Z SPACE STUDIO	$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$1,500
ETHIOPIA READS	$1,440
SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK	$1,273
KQED	$1,200
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS	$1,035
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA	$1,030
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$1,030

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 (FY20–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

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.

$203k · 54 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$203k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+17%

Still filing today

63%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther

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

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THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO
6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +25%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +20%
MACALESTER COLLEGE
6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +69%

Funded once

MG
MSK GIVING
one grant, 2023 · $500
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $500
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES
one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -10%

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.

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education

Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Gnu Foundation. 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

49 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. 49 of the 84 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)

48/49

Grantees still filing

30/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$127,442Education$29,575Arts & Culture$16,781Health$13,428International$12,514Environment$9,796Crime & Legal$9,276

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA19.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jeanne Myerson and John Cate Family. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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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

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home