Illinois · Private foundation
Janina Marks Charitable Foundation
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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Janina Marks Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $37k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $50k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $125k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $106k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $140k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Florida Folk Inc | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Evanston Art Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hyde Park Art Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lithuanian World Center | $650 | 2 | 0% |
| Draugas Foundation | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($708k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Janina Marks Charitable Foundation
- How much does Janina Marks Charitable Foundation give?
- Janina Marks Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Janina Marks Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%), Religion (0%).
- Who are Janina Marks Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Florida Folk Inc ($50k), Evanston Art Center ($10k), Hyde Park Art Center ($10k).
- Does Janina Marks Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Janina Marks Charitable 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 Janina Marks Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Janina Marks Charitable Foundation based?
- Janina Marks Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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