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.

Henry Janssen Foundation

Henry Janssen Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$987kPhilanthropy$600kFood & Nutrition$395kHousing & Shelter$280kEnvironment$250kHealth$180kRecreation & Sports$150kOther$0

02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $100k
$10k–50k23 grants · $267k
$50k–250k5 grants · $425k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
READING PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION	$200,000
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY	$75,000
GOGGLEWORKS CENTER FOR THE ARTS	$50,000
SPOTLIGHT PA	$50,000
HELPING HARVEST	$50,000
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY	$20,000
CONRAD WEISER COMMUNITY POOL	$20,000
READING PUBLIC MUSEUM	$15,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	$15,000
BERKS HISTORY CENTER	$15,000
READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$12,000
SAFE BERKS	$10,000
WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF	$10,000
7 LAKES ALLIANCE	$10,000
ALBRIGHT COLLEGE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.6M · 53 repeat orgs$349k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.6M

$284k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

Still filing today

66%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UW
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +38%
HH
HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK
8× · 2017–2024 · $305k · revenue +108%
OH
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE
8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +58%

Funded once

FF
FOUNDATION FOR RACC
one grant, 2023 · $50k
OC
OUR CITY READING INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +265%
PS
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $25k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health

Reading Berks Association of Realtors Inc

The reading berks association of realtors promotes a high standard of professionalism, advocates for private property rights, and strives to improve the quality of life in our communities.

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Bethlehem Area Public Library

To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.

Education

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

Abington Community Library Association

Public lending library

—

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Berkshire Athenaeum

The berkshire athenaeum, pittsfield's public library, exists to initiate, nurture and feed a passion for knowledge and learning. the library offers people of all ages the materials and services necessary to satisfy an appetite for…

—

Lycoming College

The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.

Education

Adamstown Area Library

The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…

Education

North Pocono Public Library

Public lending library

—

Reading Public Library Foundation

To carry out nonprofit corporate activities to sustain, increase, and extend the operations of the reading public library. these activities are to include, but are not limited to, the acquisition of property, collection and disbursement of…

Philanthropy

Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historical Society of Berks County; the most unlike its peers is The Wyomissing Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 76 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

43/44

Grantees still filing

32/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,515,000Arts & Culture$751,000Education$670,000Philanthropy$600,000Environment$210,000Housing & Shelter$160,000Human Services$160,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Berks County Community Foundation IncPA59.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry Janssen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry Janssen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home