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The Ken and Judith Joy Family 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.

$200k
Granted FY2021
22
Itemized grants FY2021
21
Organizations funded FY2021
43%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$165k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 21
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Total assets, FY2021
$3.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 43% of the organizations The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202121$160k43%
FY202021$185kn/a
74% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$152kReligion$83kHealth$35kArts & Culture$28kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$3kCrime & Legal$3kYouth Development$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Cross School$50,00020%
Cornell University$30,00020%
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Inc$20,0002n/a
1 Grain to 1000 Grains$15,000217%
The City and Country School Inc$14,00020%
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton$12,5002n/a
Utah Film Center$9,00020%
Portola Valley Schools Foundation$7,50020%
The Decision Education Foundation$6,00021%
The Florida State University Foundation Inc$6,00010%
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All grantees of The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Cross School$50,00020%
Cornell University$30,00020%
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Inc$20,0002n/a
1 Grain to 1000 Grains$15,000217%
The City and Country School Inc$14,00020%
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton$12,5002n/a
Utah Film Center$9,00020%
Portola Valley Schools Foundation$7,50020%
The Decision Education Foundation$6,00021%
The Florida State University Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Music That Makes Community$5,00016%
A Walk on Water Inc$5,00011%
Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc$3,00010%
Unique Projects Inc$3,00010%
Little Red School House Inc$3,00010%
The Grateful Garment Project$2,50010%
Windmill School Inc$2,50010%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Cross School: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget1 Grain to 1000 Grains: $15,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetThe City and Country School Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Film Center: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPortola Valley Schools Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Decision Education Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic That Makes Community: $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetA Walk on Water Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLower Cape Outreach Councilinc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnique Projects Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLittle Red School House Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Grateful Garment Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWindmill School Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation

How much does The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation give?
The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $164,500, out of $200,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (8%), Religion (4%), Health (2%).
Who are The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: North Cross School ($50k), Cornell University ($30k), Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Inc ($20k).
Does The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ken and Judith Joy 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 Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation based?
The Ken and Judith Joy Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $250k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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