· Private foundation
Janson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| YOUTHNET | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| PAGE AHEAD CHILDRENS LITERACY PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| SKAGIT COUNCIL ON AGING | $4,000 |
| CAMP KOREY | $4,000 |
| SKAGIT VALLEY NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Janson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT VALLEY NEIGHBORS IN NEED ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Janson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Janson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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