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Jana Foundation Inc at a glance

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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
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$440k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 86 grants below total $2,217,710, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,563,110 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $345,400 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION$440,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF NYC$365,000
REVERENCE$148,000
NEW AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC$100,000
TULANE UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION$100,000
CHAPEL HAVEN INC$92,000
YALE CHILD STUDY CENTER$52,500
CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK$50,000
BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES$50,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$45,000
NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL$35,000
YALE LAW SCHOOL$30,000
HORIZONS PROGRAM AT FOOTE SCHOOL$28,000
ASPCA$25,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 85 repeat orgs$869k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

85 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2023, 31 since wound down; 30 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $576k 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
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

  • 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

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

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
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
3
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
4
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
5
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
New York Shakespeare Festival

As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…

Arts & Culture
11
Miami New Drama

Miami new drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, dedicated to the development and production of new theatrical work and to theater-making as a means of social engagement, cultural conversation, and…

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 145 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION: $1,720,000 · OtherFEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATIONCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $160,000 · OtherREVERENCE: $148,000 · Other+94 more: $1,783,375 · Other+94 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 & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CONNEC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDANDELION PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 80% of budget
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.

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

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 Jana Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jana Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 145 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.6M 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.

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