· Private foundation
The Jlk Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nightingale-Bamford School | $235,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| S FORK NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| WSHU PUBLIC RADIO | $2,500 |
| ASPEN PUBLIC RADIO | $2,500 |
| ECO FLIGHT | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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 +84% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +69%
- TNTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL4× · 2020–2025 · $270k · revenue +54%
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC6× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- WCWellesley Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +63%
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%- NLNY LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDone grant, 2018 · $8k
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Associated universities inc (aui) collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. we cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ECOFLIGHT ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SCIENCE CENTER ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jlk Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jlk Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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