How much does Jane's Trust Foundation give?

Jane's Trust Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $3,318,880 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jane's Trust Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Philanthropy (14%), Health (13%).

Who are Jane's Trust Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ($1.2M), Island Institute ($940k), Mote Marine Laboratory Inc ($900k).

Does Jane's Trust Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jane's Trust 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 Jane's Trust Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.

Where is Jane's Trust Foundation based?

Jane's Trust Foundation is based in MA.

Jane's Trust Foundation

Jane's Trust Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jane's Trust 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.

$3.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$5.2MPhilanthropy$3.0MHealth$2.8MScience & Tech$2.2MEducation$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.9MArts & Culture$1.2MFood & Nutrition$975kOther$0

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $750
$10k–50k5 grants · $116k
$50k–250k35 grants · $3.2M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$66M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RESIST INC	$200,000
BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES	$200,000
ISLAND INSTITUTE	$150,000
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC	$125,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$125,000
REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION	$125,000
HIP HOP THEATER FESTIVAL INC	$125,000
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF NEW HAMPSHIRE	$125,000
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY	$125,000
SHELBURNE FARMS	$122,000
VITAL COMMUNITIES	$100,000
POSITIVE TRACKS INC	$100,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC	$100,000
VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC	$100,000
NAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE INCORPORATED	$100,000

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 (FY22–24, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Jane's Trust Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Jane's Trust Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

$17M · 46 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$17M

$952k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+6%

Still filing today

80%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

PP
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc
6× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +30%
MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +274%
BL
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
8× · 2017–2024 · $870k · revenue +106%

Funded once

FC
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING
one grant, 2019 · $217k
HI
HowardCenter Inc
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +7%
CF
CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -14%

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.

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Midcoast Conservancy

The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.

Environment

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition

MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health

350 New Hampshire

To stop the climate crisis by building grassroots support for a just transition to renewable energy and an end to fossil fuel use and expansion. We envision a society with a renewable energy economy that works for all people, where all…

Environment

Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition

Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…

Environment

Coastal Enterprises Inc

Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.

Housing & Shelter

Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

Granite State News Collaborative

The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide multimedia news collaborative that draws on and amplifies the strengths of its members to expand and add missing dimensions to coverage of issues of concern to the NH public as a whole,…

Arts & Culture

Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 81 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)

69/69

Grantees still filing

53/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$4,435,000Other$7,325,726Community Improvement$2,895,439Education$2,572,130Philanthropy$1,470,750Health$1,420,000Arts & Culture$1,074,000

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.

New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH42.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Cabbadetus Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Point32health Foundation Inc · High Meadows Fund 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 Jane's Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane's Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely 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

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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