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Jana Foundation Inc

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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2023
86
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$440k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Civil Rights$2.0MHealth$1.8MArts & Culture$825kEducation$581kFood & Nutrition$277kInternational$220kReligion$206kCrime & Legal$183kOther$0
02FY2023 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 86 grants below total $2,217,710 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,563,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $345,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k46 grants · $192k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $528k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $693k
  • $250k+2 grants · $805k
$8,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION$440,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF NYC$365,000
REVERENCE$148,000
THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION$100,000
NEW AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC$100,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY$100,000
CHAPEL HAVEN INC$92,000
YALE CHILD STUDY CENTER$52,500
BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES$50,000
CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK$50,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$45,000
NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL$35,000
YALE LAW SCHOOL$30,000
HORIZONS PROGRAM AT FOOTE SCHOOL$28,000
NATIONAL PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC: $25k → 22%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $7k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $5k → 12%ASYLUM SEAKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $5k → 17%ASYLUM SEAKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 85 repeat orgs$879k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2023, 32 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
27

Total granted

$5.7M
$293k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

55%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $586k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • FM
    FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +22%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +40%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    2× · 2021–2023 · $200k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • NY
    NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +26%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
2
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
5
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
6
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
7
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
8
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smalls Live 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.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%59%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,679

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 146 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
59/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $1,720,000 · OtherFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATIONCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $160,000 · OtherREVERENCE — $148,000 · Other+95 more — $1,783,375 · Other+95 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,145,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERAT…CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC — $401,000 · HealthCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CEN…+3 more — $47,500 · HealthTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $200,000 · EducationYale University — $152,500 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $45,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $48,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $47,000 · Arts & CultureGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 · Arts & CultureWNET — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $82,600 · Arts & CultureEquality Now Inc — $110,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $100,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $45,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $35,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 · International+2 more — $20,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $71,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society — $24,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $15,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $5,000 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC — $40,000 · Crime & LegalBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $35,000 · Crime & LegalCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $8,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,811,375Health$1,593,500Education$427,500Arts & Culture$426,600International$340,000Animals$115,000Crime & Legal$103,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION — $1,720,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC — $401,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University — $152,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Now Inc — $110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC — $88,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $71,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGRACE INSTITUTE — $65,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $48,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $47,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW HAV — $26,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetST FRANCIS FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Health Network — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARTFORD JAZZ SOCIETY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CONNEC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANDELION PRODUCTIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Jewish Foundation of …Newalliance Foundatio…Yale UniversityConnecticut Humanitie…Fairfield County's Co…The Jane and William …Ethel & Abe Lapides F…Eder Family Foundatio…William Caspar Graust…The Howard Gilman Fou…Aldo Dedominicis Foun…
The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jana Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
  • New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Down Syndrome Association of Connec — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 146 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.0M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines