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The Jennifer Foundation at a glance

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The Jennifer Foundation

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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$795kEducation$185kHealth$30kInternational$22kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$9kEnvironment$6kRecreation & Sports$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$7,319
Median grant
4
States reached
$596k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDSTAR HEALTH$15,000
ST STEPHEN'S & ST AGNES SCHOOL$10,000
LITTLE SISTERS FUND$7,319
CAMPAGNA CENTER$2,000
BECKET-CHIMNEY CORNERS YMCA$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $2k → 9%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $2k → 9%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $2k → 9%CAMPAGNA CENTER: $1k → 9%THE CAMPAGNA CENTER: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ID
IL
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+39%

Still filing today

91%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SS
    ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +123%
  • MH
    MEDSTAR HEALTH INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +16%
  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILD & FAMILY NETOWKR CENTERS
    one grant, 2020 · $850
  • AI
    ATHLETES IN ACTION
    one grant, 2019 · $500
  • RH
    RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +39%
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.

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St John's School

See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…

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2
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
3
Lowell School

Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…

Education
4
St Andrew's Schools

To educate students in a culture of care, respect, love, and service. each child is known, challenged, understood, & empowered to strive for the highest. st. andrew's schools offers a personalized curriculum that inspires students to learn…

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5
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
6
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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8
The Westminster Schools Inc

Westminster is a coeducational Christian, independent day school for grades pre-first through 12, committed to creating an educational experience where bright, curious, motivated students who are nurtured by challenge can grow into leaders…

Education
9
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
10
Eton School Foundation

In educating the whole child, eton school inspires creative, confident thinkers who have an enduring passion for learning and are poised to contribute to the world.

Education
11
The Washington-Waldorf School Inc

Educating the whole child, in mind, body and spirit, for a life of continuous learning and meaningful engagement with the world. Washington Waldorf School follows the Waldorf curriculum for students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth…

Education
12
Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Stephen's and St Agnes School Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Medstar Health Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $781,303 · OtherTWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC+5 more: $13,350 · OtherTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $100,100 · EducationTHE PROTESTANT EPISCO…ST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $75,124 · EducationST STEPHEN'S AND ST A…THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $13,926 · EducationTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOLDENISON UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $30,000 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $21,600 · InternationalTHE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC: $8,230 · Human ServicesABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWashington Winter Show Inc: $175 · PhilanthropyThe Foundation for Community Betterment: $250 · Community ImprovementMove2Learn: $250 · Youth Development
Other$794,653Education$198,150Health$30,000International$21,600Human Services$8,230Philanthropy$5,175Community Improvement$250Youth Development$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $781,303 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $100,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST STEPHEN'S AND ST AGNES SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $75,124 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC: $21,600 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $13,926 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC: $8,230 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABERCROMBIE & KENT PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBucknell University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WETLANDS INSTITUTE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for Community Betterment: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMove2Learn: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Winter Show Inc: $175 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jennifer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jennifer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Medstar Health Inc: 23% of income from government
  • The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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How do I get to The Jennifer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Jennifer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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