· Private foundation
The Littlejohn 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $725k
- $250k+1 grant · $383k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $383,333 |
| TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART | $200,000 |
| BETHESDA ACADEMY | $110,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $100,000 |
| SAVANNAH OCEAN EXCHANGE | $100,000 |
| SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION | $90,000 |
| HORIZONS NATIONAL PROGRAM SAVANNAH | $75,000 |
| SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL COMMON FUND | $25,000 |
| ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TYBEE ISLAND MARINE SCIENCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE | $25,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Littlejohn Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OEOCEAN EXCHANGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $750k · revenue +69% · 25% of their budget
- TMTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC7× · 2018–2025 · $748k · revenue +47%
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL4× · 2017–2021 · $700k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $207k
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +19%
- GAGREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +167%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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 Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 61 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 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH CLASSICAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALLETCOLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Georgia Historical Society ↗
- Who funds GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MATE INSPIRATION FOR INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds STOP ABUSE FOR EVERYONE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC ↗
- Who funds WORKS AND PROCESS INC ↗
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: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Joe Herring Family Foundation · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Littlejohn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Littlejohn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation: 88% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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