Washington · Private foundation
The Ji Ji Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Ji Ji Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 5 | $205k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $181k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $214k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $382k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $1.5M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $4k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego Society of Natural History | $1,802,400 | 3 | 12% |
| Endangered Habitats League | $419,000 | 3 | 18% |
| The Ocean Foundation | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Heyday | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New Generations Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About The Ji Ji Foundation
- How much does The Ji Ji Foundation give?
- The Ji Ji Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $205,313 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ji Ji Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), International (35%), Environment (14%).
- Who are The Ji Ji Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: San Diego Society of Natural History ($1.8M), Endangered Habitats League ($419k), The Ocean Foundation ($40k).
- Does The Ji Ji Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ji Ji Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ji Ji Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Ji Ji Foundation based?
- The Ji Ji Foundation is based in WA.
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