· Private foundation
Jenn 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Scecina Memorial High School | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Wheeler Mission | $1,500 |
| Little Sisters of the Poor | $1,000 |
| Indianapolis Zoo | $1,000 |
| Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Indianapolis Municipal Band | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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 +117% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +180%
- WMWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +117%
- HHHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC4× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- HSHuman Society Hamilton Coone grant, 2018 · $3k
- RCRiley Childrens Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $2k
- BCBethany Christian Churchone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.
We prepare and deliver essential nutritious meals to our community, promoting health, wellness, and independence of all, with the support of a diverse and engaged community network.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. we provide pre-vocational training, habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on…
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Provide services in response to individual need
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 38 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 GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN MUSIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HANCOCK HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds PACE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TMP Enterprises Inc ↗
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: Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The Saltsburg Fund Charitable Trust Xxxxx4005 · Arthur Jordan Foundation · Samerian Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jenn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jenn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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