Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Henry Janssen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $792k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Henry Janssen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 44 | $777k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $693k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $609k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $644k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $601k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $558k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $506k | 18% |
| FY2017 | 46 | $559k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Berks County Inc | $600,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Historical Society of Berks County | $373,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank | $305,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Albright College | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Opportunity House | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Alvernia University | $144,000 | 5 | 0% |
| 7 Lakes Alliance Inc | $130,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa | $105,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Reading Symphony Orchestra Association | $96,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Henry Janssen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · United Way of Berks County Inc · Blue Mountain Foundation · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Berkshire Charitable Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cynthia and Jim Boscov Family Foundation · The Catherine V and Martin Hofmann Foundation · Hammel Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Henry Janssen Foundation
- How much does Henry Janssen Foundation give?
- Henry Janssen Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $792,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Henry Janssen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (19%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Henry Janssen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Berks County Inc ($600k), Historical Society of Berks County ($373k), Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank ($305k).
- Does Henry Janssen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Henry Janssen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Henry Janssen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Breidegam Family Foundation, The Wyomissing Foundation Inc.
- Where is Henry Janssen Foundation based?
- Henry Janssen Foundation is based in PA.
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