· Private foundation
William Sloane Jelin Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIKES FOR THE WORLD | $15,000 |
| CHEWONKI FOUNDATION OF MAINE | $15,000 |
| Valentino Achak Deng Foundation | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER | $5,000 |
| CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MAJI SAFI GROUP | $5,000 |
| MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BASBLUE INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS SEMINARY | $5,000 |
| THE NATIONAL FILM PRESERVE LTD | $5,000 |
| World Affairs Council of Maine | $5,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Wings over Haiti | $5,000 |
| GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BFBikes for the World Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +22%
- TATHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +20%
- CFChewonki Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +6%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +40%- KSKENT SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +7%
- UOUniversity of Southern Maine Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +92%
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access 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…
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.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
How this is measured
60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 69 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 Bikes for the World Inc ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CHILDREN OF ESSEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND MEDIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAJI SAFI GROUP ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAINE STATE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIPP SOCAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Maine ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LOS ANGELES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NASPGHAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
- Who funds FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM AT THE GANNETT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MAINE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds BASBLUE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNEWS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Alliance Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds Chabad Lubavitch of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Maine Farmland Trust ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Roger K Berle Charitable Trust · Murray Charitable Trust · Spectemur Agendo Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Roxanne Quimby Foundation Inc · Albert B Glickman Family Foundation · Lunder Foundation · Libra Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William Sloane Jelin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William Sloane Jelin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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