The Jeito Foundation

The Jeito Foundation

The Jeito Foundation is the non-profit counterpart to Jeito Capital, a venture firm built by Rafaèle Tordjman. The foundation extends Jeito Capital's focus on healthcare innovation into a grantmaking vehicle specifically targeting female-led enterprises. Its grant history includes a $500,000 commitment to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Brigham Young University (per Altss research). The foundation's investment posture is hybrid — it blends direct grantmaking with a broader platform strategy that includes real estate holdings. Assets linked to the foundation include MT Baldy LP Holdings, a mixed-use portfolio in Surprise and Phoenix, Arizona, and the Titan Developmental Real Estate Fund I, a commercial vehicle focused on the Southwest United States. Its core mission, however, remains anchored in healthcare, drawing a direct line from Jeito Capital's venture-stage biotech and medtech activity to the foundation's philanthropic deployments. Trustee Patrick Cardon, who also leads the Cardon Family Office, oversees the foundation's fiduciary governance. The foundation is further supported by Ksenija Pavletic, a general partner at Jeito Capital, linking the grantmaking arm to the venture firm's daily operations. The foundation acts as the hub for W.I.T.H (Women Innovating Together in Healthcare), a professional network convening nearly 500 women across the healthcare industry. The structural differentiator is the tight coupling of a venture capital firm with a philanthropic foundation that shares both leadership and sector concentration. Jeito Capital sources and funds healthcare companies; the Jeito Foundation receives and deploys grants into adjacent non-profit and educational initiatives. This architecture allows Tordjman to attack the same problem — advancing female-led healthcare innovation — with both for-profit equity and philanthropic capital, a structure that blurs the traditional boundary between venture returns and mission-driven giving.