Wisconsin · Private foundation
Jenbek 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.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $911
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 33
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $270k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Jenbek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 22 | $10k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $13k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $16k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $19k | 52% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $13k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc | $7,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $6,190 | 6 | 0% |
| Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries | $3,715 | 6 | 0% |
| Food for Lane County | $3,019 | 6 | 0% |
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $2,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Womenspace | $2,368 | 4 | 0% |
| A Mothers Love | $2,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Art Papers Inc | $1,815 | 4 | 0% |
| Barn Sanctuary | $1,808 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jenbek Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Tim & Lauren Schrager Family Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Oregon Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Jenbek Foundation
- How much does Jenbek Foundation give?
- Jenbek Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jenbek Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Environment (10%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Jenbek Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc ($8k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($6k), Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries ($4k).
- Does Jenbek Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jenbek 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 Jenbek Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tim & Lauren Schrager Family Foundation, Guy Reno Family Foundation, Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008.
- Where is Jenbek Foundation based?
- Jenbek Foundation is based in WI.
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