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Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$52k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$52k43%
FY202415$44k0%
FY202318$60k17%
FY202220$597k15%
FY202123$76k9%
FY202021$90k24%
FY201919$96k21%
FY201818$71k11%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$194kArts & Culture$115kReligion$62kRecreation & Sports$61kEducation$56kHousing & Shelter$32kHuman Services$25kAnimals$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
AZ
NM
TN
DC
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($839k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Eating Disorders Association: $101,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTherapeutic Horseback Riding Inc: $40,400 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThoroughbred Retirement Foundation Inc: $18,125 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp: $12,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTravelers Aid Society of Philadelphia: $10,375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBethesda Project: $10,375 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSunday Breakfast Rescue Mission: $10,375 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $7,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPbs Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Fe Animal Shelter and Humane Society Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHearts of Surfing: $4,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Depot: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust

How much does Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust give?
Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust reported 14 grants totaling $52,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Arts & Culture (10%), Religion (5%).
Who are Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Eating Disorders Association ($102k), Therapeutic Horseback Riding Inc ($40k), Autism Speaks Inc ($33k).
Does Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, The Philadelphia Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
Where is Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust based?
Janet Upjohn Stearns Charitable Trust is based in IL.

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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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