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Janson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| YOUTHNET | $6,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $5,500 |
| WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| DORDT UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| FOOTHILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY | $4,000 |
| SKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING | $4,000 |
| PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PROGRAM | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Janson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CKCAMP KOREY5× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +9%
- DUDORDT UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +50%
- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SCSKAGIT COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
- HHHELPING HANDS FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -38%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2023 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
Pacific union college is a seventh-day adventist learning community offering an excellent christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest University and the most unlike its peers is Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds DORDT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT GLEANERS ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PRGM ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHNET ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds The Skagit Valley Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF SKAGIT VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Skagit Valley College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDDLEHEAD MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT VALLEY NEIGHBORS IN NEED ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Skagit Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Tucker Family Foundation · School's Out Washington · Shell USA Company Foundation · United Way of Skagit County · Jack and Shirley McIntyre Foundation · Seattle Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Janson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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