JLH Foundation

• The foundation makes contributions only to organisations it has preselected and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small charity should not send it a cold application; the realistic route is a relationship that leads to an invitation.
• Your organisation fits best if it is a medical school, hospital, university foundation or transplant-related organisation, which are the kinds of recipients its grants have gone to.
• About 8 in 10 of its 29 grants fall between $25,000 and $2,000,000, and half were $100,000 or less, so a request towards the lower end of that typical band matches its pattern, though the largest grant was $7,000,000.
• Because 90% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had funded in earlier filings, a new organisation should look for an existing connection first.
• The filing states no geographic focus, though its grants are mainly in Texas, so location is a useful signal rather than a rule.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• University of Texas Foundation · Charitable
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Compassionate Touch · Charitable
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Baylor College of Medicine · Charitable
  $315,0002024 tax year
• Childrens Organ Transplant Association · Charitable
  $252,0002024 tax year
• Childrens Transplant Initiative · Charitable
  $175,2002024 tax year
• Transplant Association · Charitable
  $90,0002024 tax year
• Childrens Medical Center · Charitable
  $80,0002024 tax year
• TRIO Central Texas Chapter · Charitable
  $75,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.