The Jed Foundation
New York, NY · EIN 13-4131139. Reported 64 grants totalling $1,639,278 to 61 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Jed Foundation, the IRS classifies it under mental health rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE F40) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 61 distinct organizations, with 31% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $21,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $21,000; the smallest was $5,088 and the largest $504,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
64 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,639,278 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D79 | Jamaica, NY | $504,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stafford County Public Schools | Stafford, VA | $46,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| County College of Morris Foundation | Randolph, NJ | $42,369 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emmanuel College | Boston, MA | $42,369 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern University and A&m College | Baton Rouge, LA | $42,369 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Houston-Downtown | Houston, TX | $42,369 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chief Sealth International High School | Seattle, WA | $42,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Richardson Hs | Richardson, TX | $42,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sam Houston State University | Huntsville, TX | $42,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Athenian School | Danville, CA | $25,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eagle Hill Foundation of Massachusetts Inc | Hardwick, MA | $25,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Phillips Andover Academy | Andover, MA | $25,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ballard High School Foundation | Seattle, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bellows Falls | Bellows Falls, VT | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brown City Jrsr High School | Brown City, MI | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Burlington High School | Burlington, MA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Castle Rock Education Association | Longview, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cedarcrest High School Ptsa 2 16 35 | Duvall, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cleveland High School STEM | Seattle, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crandall Isd Education Foundation Inc | Crandall, TX | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crossroads High School | Concord, CA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eastside Catholic School | Sammamish, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gilbert High School Athletic Booster Club | Gilbert, SC | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hockinson High School Athletic and Activities Booster Club | Brush Prairie, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Howell High School Mi | Howell, MI | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lakewood High School | Lakewood, NJ | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln High School (tacoma) | Tacoma, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln High School Seattle | Seattle, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saas (seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences) | Seattle, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Seattle Preparatory School | Seattle, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spokane Valley Tech | Spokane Valley, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Center School | Somerset, NJ | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thurgood Marshall (formerly Christa Mcauiliffe Learning Center) | Manhattan, NY | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tupper Lake Middle-High School | Tupper Lake, NY | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wilbur Secondary School | Wilbur, WA | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Jacinto Community College Foundation Pasadena Texas | Pasadena, TX | $19,375 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edgewood University Inc | Madison, WI | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alamo Colleges Foundation Inc | San Antonio, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Police Athletic League Inc | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Bottom Line Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wilbur Wright College | Chicago, IL | $11,875 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California College of the Arts | San Francisco, CA | $10,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shrewsbury High School | Shrewsbury, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Leeward Community College | Pearl City, HI | $9,125 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maybellineloreal | New York, NY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amarillo College Foundation Inc | Amarillo, TX | $7,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Freeport High School | Freeport, NY | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Victoria College | Victoria, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Queensborough Community College Fund Inc | Bayside, NY | $6,389 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cape Elizabeth High School | Cape Elizabeth, ME | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Acheivement First University Prep High School | Brooklyn, NY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Achievement First Amistad High School | New Haven, CT | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Achievement First Brooklyn High School | Brooklyn, NY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Achievement First Hartford High School | Hartford, CT | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Achievement First Providence Hs | Providence, RI | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Achievement First Ujima High School | Brooklyn, NY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lehman High School | Bronx, NY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Raymond JR SR High School | Raymond, WA | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Willows Preparatory School Family Association | Redmond, WA | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc | New York, NY | $5,088 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 61 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
37% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $21,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Jed Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 1 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 64 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 745 Fifth Avenue 500, New York, NY, 10151.
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