Organization · EIN 52-1885088 · Washington, DC · Public & societal benefit

Who funds Judicial Watch?

400 private foundations reported paying Judicial Watch $3.12M on returns for tax year 2023.

400 funders · 8 foundations that fund peers · 6 closest peers

Funders 400

FoundationPaidPurpose as filedMatchSource
Wayne and Nan Kocourek Foundation
Buffalo Grove, IL · Preselected only
$250,000 TO SUPPORT OPERATIONAL AND PROGRAM EXPENSES. Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
New Hope Charitable Foundation
San Marcos, CA · Preselected only
$125,000 CHARITY COLLABORATION IN REGION Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 06/2024
Co Tua John F Cuneo Jr Fnd
Dallas, TX · Preselected only
$100,000 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation
Thomasville, GA · Preselected only
$100,000 OPERATING EXPENSES Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Helen W Bell Charitable Foundation
Naples, FL · Preselected only
$100,000 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Percy Fund
Blue Bell, PA · Preselected only
$80,000 TO SUPPORT THE OPERATING BUDGET OF THE RECIPIENT Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Pike & Susan Sullivan Charitable Trust
Cheyenne, WY · Preselected only
$75,000 EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
James F Causley Jr Family Foundation
Harrison Twp, MI · Preselected only
$75,000 GENERAL OPERATING FUND Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Ben & Mary Doskocil Family Foundatio
Arlington, TX · Preselected only
$70,000
3 grant lines
GENERAL USE Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Hjd Foundation
Sunapee, NH · Preselected only
$70,000 GENERAL
Filed as “JUDICIAL WATCH INC OPERATING ACCOUNT”
Same address 0.66 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Rodney Fund
West Bloomfield, MI · Preselected only
$70,000 GENERAL FUNDING 501(C)3 Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
C and a Johnson Family Foundation
Palm Beach, FL
$50,000
2 grant lines
CHARITABLE SUPPORT Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Garatoni-Smith Family Foundation
Mishawaka, IN · Preselected only
$50,000 GENERAL CHARITABLE GIFT Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Markkula Foundation
Woodside, CA
$50,000 unrestricted Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 06/2024
Deany's Days Foundation
Langley, WA · Preselected only
$50,000 TO FURTHER THE ORGANIZATIONS EXEMPT PURPOSE Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Merchantz Family Foundation
Hinsdale, IL · Preselected only
$50,000 TO FURTHER THE EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
Crittenden Foundation
Nashville, TN · Preselected only
$50,000 OPERATING Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation
Beltsville, MD · Preselected only
$40,000 UNRESTRICTED SUPPORT OF THE ORGANIZATIONS TAX EXEMPT PURPOSE Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
AmazonSmile Foundation
Seattle, WA · Preselected only
$39,464 GENERAL SUPPORT Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023
The Karpus Family Foundation
Pittsford, NY · Preselected only
$35,000 GENERAL PURPOSE Same address 1.00 Wrong? 990-PF
FYE 12/2023

Amounts are as filed on each foundation's 990-PF for a tax year beginning in 2023. The match shows how the payee on the filing was linked to this EIN (what each match type means); hover or tap it for the score. Wrong? Report it.

Foundations that fund organizations like Judicial Watch

These foundations paid at least two of the 25 organizations that share the most funders with Judicial Watch, but don't appear on its own funder list for 2023. This is a factual overlap from filings, not a recommendation or an endorsement.

  1. The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation Reading, PA
    Paid 17 of the 25 closest peers · $4,981 to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only
  2. GE Foundation Norwalk, CT
    Paid 17 of the 25 closest peers · $668K to them
  3. Riklin Charitable Trust San Antonio, TX
    Paid 14 of the 25 closest peers · $12.8K to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only
  4. Arthur G Jaros Sr & Dawn L Jaros Charitable Trust Oak Brook, IL
    Paid 11 of the 25 closest peers · $34.8K to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only
  5. Baird Foundation Milwaukee, WI
    Paid 15 of the 25 closest peers · $66.5K to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only
  6. Ralph & Mary Cleveland Foundation Gainesville, GA
    Paid 10 of the 25 closest peers · $19.5K to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only
  7. Ed & Ursula Meese Family Foundation McLean, VA
    Paid 9 of the 25 closest peers · $10.5K to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only
  8. Sempra Foundation San Diego, CA
    Paid 13 of the 25 closest peers · $149K to them · Says it funds preselected organizations only

Organizations with the most funders in common

  1. The Heritage Foundation Washington, DC
    113 shared funders · 287 funders in all
  2. Leadership Institute Arlington, VA
    118 shared funders · 295 funders in all
  3. Hillsdale College Hillsdale, MI
    142 shared funders · 640 funders in all
  4. Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation Staten Island, NY
    94 shared funders · 1285 funders in all
  5. Turning Point USA Indianapolis, IN
    86 shared funders · 229 funders in all
  6. Cato Institute Washington, DC
    49 shared funders · 182 funders in all

Where this comes from

Each row is a grant line from Part XV of a private foundation's Form 990-PF. The 990-PF has no field for the recipient's tax ID, so WHOFUNDS matched the payee's name and address to the IRS Business Master File. How matching works and where it fails.

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