JESSIE BALL DUPONT RELIGIOUS CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL FUND
Mission
Our mission is to serve the communities that Jessie Ball duPont knew and loved. We envision a world in which every member of those communities feels they belong.
Ruling year
1973
President
Mari Kuraishi
Main address
40 East Adams Street Suite 300
Jacksonville, FL 32202 USA
EIN
59-6368632
NTEE code
Private Independent Foundations (T22)
Private Grantmaking Foundations (T20)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Per the terms of Jessie Ball duPont’s will, the Fund was established to provide temporary relief to individuals, organizations, and communities in Florida, Virginia, and Delaware. At its heart the Jessie Ball duPont Fund is deeply committed to placemaking and inclusive growth in the communities that were important to Mrs. duPont.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Placemaking: A Sense of Place
Our investments in placemaking are driven by four underlying convictions:
1. Belonging: People’s connections to each other and the places they care about matter a lot, and when successfully nurtured, result in a cohesive community spirit and a sense of belonging.
2. Strengthening: Strengthening low-income neighborhoods while building social capital is critical to belonging. People of color and members of other historically marginalized communities have unique knowledge, power and resources to influence their neighborhoods and communities.
3. Partnering: People’s efforts are maximized when they work in partnership with each other.
4. Leading: People participate in projects and decisions that affect them, and creating opportunities for emerging leaders helps to build individual and organizational capacity for civic engagement.
Equity: Equitable Access to Opportunities
For Educational Institutions
1. Increasing retention and/or graduation rates of first-generation and low-income students at private and public universities
2. Providing low-income and first-generation youth and their families with practical college access tools that lead to college enrollment
3. Increasing the diversity of board members at private educational institutions, and the diversity of faculty members at all educational institutions
For Nonprofit Organizations
1. Increasing the diversity of board members and staff at nonprofit organizations
2. Assisting organizations in eliminating unconscious bias by conducting internal audits of policies, procedures and practices and supporting the implementation of recommended changes
For Cultural & Religious Institutions
1. Providing opportunities for the artistic works and stories of diverse populations to be shared in traditional art, cultural and historic preservation spaces
2. Supporting programming and other efforts to make traditional arts and culture spaces welcoming to entire communities
3. Utilizing spaces that are unused during the week as gathering spaces that meet a community need
Impact Investing
Our Impact Investing Program is designed to:
1. Align the Fund’s endowed assets to our mission and values;
2. Catalyze innovative solutions and services that benefit humans and the environment; and
3. Create new sources of investment capital for communities and encourage others to leverage their assets to more directly impact the communities they serve.
As of 2020, about one-third of our endowment is invested in a socially responsible manner or invested to achieve a positive impact, such as the preservation and creation of affordable housing or small business development for women and people of color.
These investment vehicles include program-related investments (PRIs) such as loans and guarantees, and mission-related investments (MRIs) such as equity investments in companies that provide social benefit.
Where we work
External reviews
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Total number of grants awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Information is tracked and exported from the Fund's Fluxx grant making platform.
Total dollar amount of grants awarded
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Information is tracked and exported from the Fund's Fluxx grant making platform.
Average Large Grant Amount
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Information is tracked and exported from the Fund's Fluxx grant making platform. Large grants are defined as over $15,000.
Average Small Grant Amount
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Information is tracked and exported from the Fund's Fluxx grant making platform. Small grants are defined as $15,000 or less.
Median Large Grant Amount
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Information is tracked and exported from the Fund's Fluxx grant making platform.
Median Small Grant Amount
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Information is tracked and exported from the Fund's Fluxx grant making platform.
Organizational Impact on Grantee Organizations
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
From the 2019 Center for Effective Philanthropy Grantee Perception Report. This data will be collected every three years. In this category, the Fund ranks in the 60th percentile with a 6.25 rating.
Community Impact on Grantee Communities
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
From the 2019 Center for Effective Philanthropy Grantee Perception Report. This data will be collected every three years. In this category, the Fund ranks in the 33rd percentile with a 5.32 rating.
Field Impact on grantee Fields
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
From the 2019 Center for Effective Philanthropy Grantee Perception Report. This data will be collected every three years. In this category, the Fund ranks in the 19th percentile with a 5.44 rating.
Strength of Grantee Relationships
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
From the 2019 Center for Effective Philanthropy Grantee Perception Report. This data will be collected every three years. In this category, the Fund ranks in the 62nd percentile with a 6.27 rating.
Helpfulness of selection process according to grantees
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
From the 2019 Center for Effective Philanthropy Grantee Perception Report. This data will be collected every three years. In this category, the Fund ranks in the 99th percentile with a 5.96 rating.
Total of Digital Fundraising Matches
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Jessie Ball duPont Fund partners with Lightful to train grantees in digital fundraising best practices and matches fund raising during online campaigns 1:1 up to $25,000.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our goals are to make a measurable difference in identified core communities in Florida, Virginia, and Delaware. There are different goals for each community, guided as much as possible by the priorities identified by constituents of the community. These goals can change over time, through shifts in community preference, and through changes in the external environment. The geographic designations made in Mrs. duPont’s will incline us to take a holistic, sector-agnostic approach to the challenges faced by communities, so our approach does not always follow thematic lines.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund seeks to provide catalytic funding to organizations based in the communities that were important to Mrs. duPont in her lifetime. We seek to do this in partnership with key stakeholders in the community so that we can maximize the impact achieved with our resources. We seek to bring all modalities of support to the goals described above, ranging from capital, lending, grants, knowledge, to convenings.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund has approximately $375 million in assets, of which about a third is invested with an impact lens. Grantmaking has ranged from $15-20 million a year. Because the Fund has made grants to some grantees for over 30 years, we have long-standing relationships with many grantees that give us unique insights into the long-term challenges faced by grantees.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund has consistently funded some 300+ organizations for over 30 years. The learning from this type of grantmaking is unique and will be leveraged for our strategies going forward. The Fund has also made a landmark commitment to downtown Jacksonville by investing in the city’s old main public library—a mid-century modern architectural gem that was upgraded to LEED standards and provides affordable office space downtown for key nonprofits. The investment was made in 2012 after the 2008 Great Recession (Jacksonville was hit hard by the foreclosure crisis) and was a vote of confidence in downtown as well as in the nonprofits that suddenly faced a spike in demand for their services.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, It is difficult to get honest feedback from the people we serve, It is difficult to identify actionable feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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JESSIE BALL DUPONT RELIGIOUS CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL FUND
Board of directorsas of 02/17/2023
Anna Escobedo Cabral
The Cabral Group
Term: 2023 - 2025
Elizabeth Kiss
The Rhodes Trust
Term: 2023 - 2025
Rev. Allison DeFoor
President & CEO, North Florida Land Trust
Rev. Jen Bailey
Founder and Executive Director of the Faith Matters Network
Marty Lanahan
EVP and Tampa Bay Market President for Iberia Bank
Willem Erwich
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Trust Wealth Management
Anna Escobedo Cabral
Partner in The Cabral Group
Elizabeth Kiss
CEO of the Rhodes Trust and Warden of Rhodes House
Chuck Redmond
Vice President of Finance and Operations at Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP)
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Sexual orientation
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Equity strategies
Last updated: 06/25/2020GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more
- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
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