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Joel and Carol Jankowsky Foundation at a glance

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Joel and Carol Jankowsky 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$133kHealth$110kEducation$86kArts & Culture$11kReligion$7kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION$6,500
HOLLAND HALL$5,000
BOOKER T WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
THE LOCAL NEWS HUB$2,500
CLOSE UP FOUNDATION$2,147
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 11%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $1k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
CT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 11 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$303k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+40%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CU
    CLOSE UP FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +11%
  • PC
    Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn
    5× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +17%
  • TP
    The Potomac School
    4× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VEMONT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CF
    CHANCE FOR LIFE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -88%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION - OU LAW
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
8
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
12
International Cancer Advocacy Network

Ican's mission is two-fold: to optimize stage iv cancer patient survival and work to attain the highest possible quality of life. ican assists stage iv cancer patients with 1) direct patient navigation and customized advocacy services; 2)…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sooner Theatre of Norman Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLOSE UP FOUNDATION: $133,147 · Arts & CultureCLOSE UP FOUNDATION+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $55,000 · HealthPrevent Cancer Foundation aka C…CHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONCHANCE FOR LIFE: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $1,250 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHO…The Potomac School: $30,000 · EducationThe Potomac School+2 more: $1,000 · EducationCHANCE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCHANCE FOR LIFE …THE UNIVERSITY OF VEMONT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY O…UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION - OU LAW: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OK…HOLLAND HALL: $5,000 · OtherHOLLAND HALLBOOKER T WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherBOOKER T WASHING…WASHINGTON HEBREW CONGREGATION: $3,000 · OtherWASHINGTON HEBRE…TEMPLE ISRAEL: $2,500 · OtherTHE LOCAL NEWS HUB: $2,500 · Other+11 more: $7,500 · Other+11 moreNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $750 · Food & NutritionEXCHANGE CLUB DICK WEBBER CENTER: $250 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$135,147Health$97,250Education$63,500Other$50,500Human Services$1,500Philanthropy$1,000Food & Nutrition$750Crime & Legal$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLOSE UP FOUNDATION: $133,147 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Potomac School: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSooner Theatre of Norman Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB DICK WEBBER CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Washington Co…Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Tulsa Community Found…T Rowe Price Program …The Ayco Charitable F…Shell USA Company Fou…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joel and Carol Jankowsky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joel and Carol Jankowsky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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