· Private foundation
The Jersey Foundation
Its FY2019 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
99% of The Jersey Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Rsf Social Finance Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year The Jersey Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $83k. 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 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESOURCE GENERATION | $50,000 |
| THE FOOD PROJECT | $15,000 |
| THE FARM SCHOOL SENTINEL ELM FARM | $6,000 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| ASTRAEA LESBIAN FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE INC | $5,000 |
| THE CARROT PROJECT | $1,000 |
| WALTHAM FIELDS COMMUNITY FARM | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +82% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, 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 FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
RESOURCE GENERATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +206%- TFThe Food Project Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue -2%
- TFTHE FARM SCHOOL SENTINEL ELM FARM2× · 2017–2018 · $12k
Funded once
- WMWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +82%
- GIGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +189%
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +44%
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.
Root capital seeks to increase incomes and stabilize employment for farmers in africa, south-east asia, and latin america. root capital does this through a proven channel: support for agricultural businesses that collect and market the…
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
The womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
Capital roots, inc. is a not for profit organization that nourishes healthy communities by providing access to fresh food and green spaces for all. it is our beleif that organic gardening and urban revitilization activites promote self…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
Organic seed alliance puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. our work promotes an abundant and diverse supply of organic seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled, diverse and interconnected communities of seed stewards.
Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.
Astia is a community of experts committed to leveling the playing field for women entrepreneurs by providing access to capital and network for the companies they lead.
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jersey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jersey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Farms Outreach Inc: 20% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Jersey’s filings →