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Janca Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Janca Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$53kHealth$10kEducation$3kHuman Services$1k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$428k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LACKAWANNA EDUCATION EXTRACURRICULAR$3,000
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION$2,500
THE ZACH LIBERATORE FOUNDATION$2,000
FRONTIER BLACK AND BLUE BOOSTER$1,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$1,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH$1,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL$1,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$1,000
KENNY TENCZA JR MEMORIAL FUND$1,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 9%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $1k → 13%CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%KENNY TENCZA JR MEMORIAL FUND: $1k → 10%ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: $1k → 9%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $1k → 12%OPLLF INC: $50k → 13%KENNY TENCZA JR MEMORIAL FUND: $700 → 10%THE ZACH LIBERATORE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%THE ZACH LIBERATORE FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%FRONTIER BLACK AND BLUE BOOSTER: $1k → 13%LACKAWANNA EDUCATION EXTRACURRICULAR: $3k → 13%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.
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 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
Zack Latteri Foundation
Education
2
The Frederick P Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism
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3
The Western New York Foundation
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4
New York Crohns Foundation
Unclassified
5
Lockport High School Foundation
Education
6
Western New York Impact Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Mark Vincent Pelini Foundation
Education
8
The Max Vincze Foundation
Health
9
Bradley Zankel Foundationinc
Health
10
Batavia Youth Lacrosse
Youth Development
11
The Joseph Blazek Foundation
—
12
New York Life Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lackawanna Education Extracurricular Foundation Inc Leef. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPLLF Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsOPLLF Inc+1 more: $1,700 · Recreation & SportsTHE ZACH LIBERATORE FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 · HealthTHE ZACH LI…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthCROHN'S & C…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthBLOOD CANCE…Lackawanna Education Extracurricular Foundation Inc LEEF: $3,000 · EducationFrontier Black & Blue Booster Club: $1,000 · EducationSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $1,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH: $1,000 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$51,700Health$6,800Education$4,000Other$3,000Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetOPLLF Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE ZACH LIBERATORE FOUNDATION INC: $3,800 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLackawanna Education Extracurricular Foundation Inc LEEF: $3,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenny Tencza Jr Memorial Fund Inc: $1,700 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFrontier Black & Blue Booster Club: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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