· Private foundation
The Jennison Charitable 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of The Jennison Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Jennison Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $578k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL | $350,000 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROG | $110,000 |
| THE BREWSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $22,000 |
| JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION SCHOLORSHIP | $20,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $9,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,004 |
| CARITAS COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $4,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| JDRF INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CURRY COLLEGE | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 15 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF LIBERTAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $523k · revenue +462% · 56% of their budget
- BHBREWSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2018–2023 · $200k · revenue +13% · 42% of their budget
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $52k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CMChildren's Medical Center Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +172%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +78%
- JAJEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +139%
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Education and Research
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LIBERTAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BREWSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Scranton ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT CONNECTION INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jennison Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jennison Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
- Hilltown Community Health Centers Inc: 18% of income from government
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc: 13% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Curry College: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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