· Private foundation
Jim and Vicki Jansen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDITAROD TRAIL COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| CURE EPILEPSY | $30,000 |
| THE GREAT ALASKA COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| SEASHARE | $25,000 |
| USS TED STEVENS COMMISSIONING | $25,000 |
| ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM GOOSE PROJEC | $25,000 |
| TED STEVENS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY | $20,000 |
| ALASKA AVIATION HERITAGE MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $20,000 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREAT ALASKA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $15,000 |
| MOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $25k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
39 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ITIDITAROD TRAIL COMMITTEE4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +58%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +132%
- TTTHE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- THTONGASS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $20k
- WMWHITTIER MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.
The blood bank provides blood products and testing services to hospitals to ensure an adequate and safe supply of blood in routine and emergency situations. it provides educational services to potential donors and recipients of blood…
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
Connects people to alaska's public lands through the creation and delivery of educational products and programs.
Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…
The mission of associated general contractors of alaska is to advocate for our members and the alaskan construction industry, to provide educational opportunities for our members and to make the public aware of our members' skills,…
The alaska sealife center generates and shares scientific knowledge to promote understanding and stewardship of alaska's marine ecosystems.
Promote and encourage cooperation among Alaska electric utilities and their customers while promoting the operation of electrical plants adequate for the needs of Alaskan consumers.
FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.
SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Fire Alaska and the most unlike its peers is Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds IDITAROD TRAIL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
- Who funds Alaska Aviation Museum ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEASHARE ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEDICS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 610 Great Alaska Council ↗
- Who funds ALASKA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds The Last Frontier Honor Flight ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds Shoot For The Cure ↗
- Who funds Beans Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds Alaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds ENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ↗
- Who funds Calista Education and Culture Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · The Carr Foundation Inc · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Global Credit Union Foundation · Atwood Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · The Sholton Foundation · Gillam Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jim and Vicki Jansen Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.