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Janes Fund

Jane's fund provides encouragement and financial support to students attending under-resourced schools and families with a child battling terminal cancer.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$90k
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.

Education$250kHuman Services$61kRecreation & Sports$60kYouth Development$17k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $306,910, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,823,088 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,516,178 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$716k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEART MATH TUTORING$90,000
QUEEN CITY SCHOLARS$54,000
RENAISSANCE WEST STEAM ACADEMY$22,990
Individual grant recipient$17,500
CAMP THUNDERBIRD$17,475
CAMP THUNDERBIRD$13,680
CAMP THUNDERBIRD$12,370
CAMP BOBKANUGA$12,000
OLYMPIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,001
RANSON MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,000
MERRY OAKES INTERNATIONAL$9,600
RANSON MIDDLE SCHOOL$9,200
THOMASBORO ELEMENTARY$7,500
GREATER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM$7,000
YMCA CAMP THUNDERBIRD$6,975
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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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YMCA CAMP THUNDERBIRD: $24k → 8%CAMP THUNDERBIRD: $17k → 8%CAMP THUNDERBIRD: $14k → 8%CAMP THUNDERBIRD: $12k → 8%YMCA CAMP THUNDERBIRD: $7k → 8%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
The Roc Charlotte Inc

To provide technical construction skills and job readiness training, mentorships, paid apprenticeships and permanent job placement for students attending high schools in under-served areas of Mecklenburg County. The ROC construction trade…

Education
2
Boys & Girls Clubs - Charlotte Region

Through an intentional youth-centered and high-quality approach and philosophy, BGCCR provide youth and teens with safe, learning environments, relationships and experiences that build essentials skills in the following areas:Health &…

Youth Development
3
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
4
Carolina Collaborative Prep

Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.

Education
5
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
6
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
7
Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc

To prevent under-resourced children from dropping out or failing in school by surrounding them with a community of support at the school house to include tutoring, mentoring, case management, afterschool and other enrichment activities,…

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8
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
9
Harmony Dc Public Charter Schools

The mission of the charter school is to prepare students for higher learning in a safe, caring, and collaborative atmosphere through a quality learner-centered educational program with a strong emphasis on science, technology, engineering,…

Education
10
Catalyst Global Youth Initiatives

Mentoring and academic enrichment

Public Benefit
11
Oak Ridge Youth Development Corp dba Oak Ridge Youth Development School

To create a nurturing environment for youth to achieve academic excellence, to learn about economic and entrepreneurial concepts, to improve science, technology, engineering and math skills enhance self-esteem and empower youth to become…

Youth Development
12
Early Years Inc

Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Renaissance West Community Initiative; the most unlike its peers is Greater Enrichment Program 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Heart Math Tutoring Inc: $130,000 · EducationHeart Math Tutoring IncRenaissance West Community Initiative: $22,990 · EducationRenaissance West Community InitiativeOlympic High School Foundation: $10,001 · EducationOlympic High School FoundationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $9,600 · EducationCLASSROOM CENTRAL INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $74,395 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN A…Greater Enrichment Program Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesGreater Enrichment Prog…PTA NORTH CAROLINA CONGRESS: $19,200 · OtherPTA NORTH CAROLINA CONG…Individual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…Individual grant recipient: $16,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…KANUGA CONFERENCES INCORPORATED: $12,000 · OtherKANUGA CONFERENCES INCO…THOMASBORO ELEMENTARY: $7,500 · OtherTHOMASBORO ELEMENTARYCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS: $6,619 · OtherCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG S…DELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC: $54,000 · Youth DevelopmentDELAWARE COLLEG…
Education$172,591Human Services$81,395Other$79,569Youth Development$54,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $74,395 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE COLLEGE SCHOLARS INC: $54,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative: $22,990 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOlympic High School Foundation: $10,001 over 1y, 12% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $9,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Enrichment Program Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

Foundation for the Ca…Brighthouse Financial…The Leon Levine Found…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationEquitable Foundation …The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Brighthouse Financial Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Delaware College Scholars Inc: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 13 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 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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