New York · Private foundation
Jana Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2023
- 86
- Itemized grants FY2023
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2023
- $2.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2023
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $440,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 84 to 92
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 12
- Total assets, FY2023
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Jana Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $576k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 84 | $2.1M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 90 | $2.6M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 92 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feminist Majority Foundation | $1,720,000 | 3 | 15% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $1,145,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc | $401,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $160,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Equality Now Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc | $88,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York City Ballet Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Music School Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jana Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Aldo Dedominicis Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Jana Foundation Inc
- How much does Jana Foundation Inc give?
- Jana Foundation Inc reported 86 itemized grants totaling $2,217,710, out of $2,563,110 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 84 and 92 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Jana Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Civil Rights (15%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Jana Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Feminist Majority Foundation ($1.7M), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($1.1M), Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc ($401k).
- Does Jana Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jana Foundation Inc 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 Jana Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc, Newalliance Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jana Foundation Inc based?
- Jana Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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