· Private foundation
Jeniam Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $521k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $835k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST LONG ISLAND | $150,000 |
| WAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC | $100,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY CT & NY | $85,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY CT & NY | $75,000 |
| EVERWONDER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| DANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC | $41,000 |
| HORIZONS NATIONAL | $40,000 |
| NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $40,000 |
| EARTHPLACE THE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER INC | $40,000 |
| NEWTOWN-SANDY HOOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $438k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $535k · revenue +39%- WPWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $354k · revenue +101% · 43% of their budget
- OLORCHESTRA LUMOS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY OF CT & NYone grant, 2023 · $170k
- HNHORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INCone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -67%
- PMPURPLE MARTIN CONSERVATION ASSOCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +38%
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.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The connecticut river conservancy (crc) restores and advocates for clean water, healthy habitats, and resilient communicities to support a diverse and thriving watershed. through collaborative partnerships in new hampshire, vermont, and…
The nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3) organized to protect animals from abuse and neglect.(see schedule o)the nassau county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals is a 501(c)(3)…
How this is measured
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 126 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 BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO WILDERNESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EARTHPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN-SANDY HOOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWTOWN FOREST ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN CHAMBER MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FURRY FRIENDS FOSTER AND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DANBURY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Global Forest Generation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jeniam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeniam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc: 100% of income from government
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc: 27% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
- Real Food Ct: 17% of income from government
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc: 14% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc: 1% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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