Connecticut · Private foundation
Jeniam Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $33M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Jeniam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 48 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.4M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.3M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.2M | 37% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Friends Animal Society | $535,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Waveny Park Conservancy Inc | $353,500 | 5 | 43% |
| Orchestra Lumos Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Wolf Conservation Center Inc | $321,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Newtown Childrens Museum Inc | $282,500 | 5 | 29% |
| American Bird Conservancy | $272,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Save the Sound | $237,000 | 5 | 1% |
| New Mexico Wilderness Alliance | $207,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Earthplace Inc | $204,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Animal Humane Association of New Mexico Inc | $201,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 89 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jeniam Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · MLE Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Corbet Family Foundation · The Queenan Fdn Acct
How this is measured
About Jeniam Foundation
- How much does Jeniam Foundation give?
- Jeniam Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $1,455,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Jeniam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (27%), Environment (26%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Jeniam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Best Friends Animal Society ($535k), Waveny Park Conservancy Inc ($354k), Orchestra Lumos Inc ($350k).
- Does Jeniam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jeniam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jeniam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Canaan Community Foundation Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Connecticut Humanities Council Inc.
- Where is Jeniam Foundation based?
- Jeniam Foundation is based in CT.
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