California · Private foundation
The Jolson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $838k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $225,561
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Jolson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $838k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $607k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $567k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $283k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $416k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $372k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $352k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge the Gap College Prep | $426,162 | 6 | 7% |
| Next Generation Scholars Inc | $363,000 | 3 | 10% |
| 10000 Degrees | $310,000 | 6 | 1% |
| San Geronimo Valley Community Center | $155,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Nicasio Volunteer Fire Dept | $150,000 | 7 | 17% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $150,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Extrafood | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| St Vincent de Paul Society District Council of Marin County | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The J David Gladstone Institutes | $52,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Jolson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Way of the Bay Area · Harbor Point Charitable Foundation · The Endurance Fund · Extrafood · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund
How this is measured
About The Jolson Family Foundation
- How much does The Jolson Family Foundation give?
- The Jolson Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $838,061 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Jolson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Human Services (20%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are The Jolson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Bridge the Gap College Prep ($426k), Next Generation Scholars Inc ($363k), 10000 Degrees ($310k).
- Does The Jolson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jolson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jolson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation, Hobsonlucas Family Foundation.
- Where is The Jolson Family Foundation based?
- The Jolson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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