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MICHAEL D AND JOLYNN BLAIR FAMILY FOUNDATION co JANUS & ASSOC at a glance

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MICHAEL D AND JOLYNN BLAIR FAMILY FOUNDATION co JANUS & ASSOC

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.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$182k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$608kFood & Nutrition$396kRecreation & Sports$311kArts & Culture$257kHuman Services$192kInternational$49kYouth Development$23kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $234k
$52,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION$181,931
BRIGHTPOINT$52,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR BETTER LIVING$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $1k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $52k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $25k → 14%BRIGHTPOINT: $1k → 14%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
CA
CO
AZ
DC
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 14 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$1.8M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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InternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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

  • LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $310k · revenue +2%
  • GG
    GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +155%
  • AP
    Albany Park Theater Project
    6× · 2017–2023 · $186k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $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
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
2
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Northern Illinois Food Bank

With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…

Food & Nutrition
5
Arkansas Foodbank

None

Food & Nutrition
6
Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc

The hunger coalition builds a healthy community through access to good food and addresses the root causes of food insecurity in collaboration with key partners.

Food & Nutrition
7
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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8
Hunger Free America Inc

Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.

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9
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
11
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

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12
Feed the Children Inc

We are a global movement working to end child hunger in the u.s. and around the world. together with communities, we provide food, essentials, and opportunities so every child can survive and thrive.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care for Real; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

21 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. 21 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $607,550 · EducationYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INCLAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC: $310,000 · Recreation & SportsLAKE GENEVA FRESH …GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $275,000 · EnvironmentGROWING GARDENS …Albany Park Theater Project: $185,700 · Youth DevelopmentAlbany Park…CHASI CHILDRENS HOME AID: $114,000 · OtherCHASI CHILDRENS H…LAKE GENEVA LYRIC OPERA HOUSE: $21,700 · OtherLAKE GENEVA LYRIC…NIMBUS ARTS: $40,300 · OtherNIMBUS ARTSPiven Theatre Workshop: $30,500 · OtherPiven Theatre Wor…LIGHT UP HOPE INC: $47,800 · OtherLIGHT UP HOPE INC+18 more: $30,630 · Other+18 moreST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $118,400 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $1,500 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $78,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,400 · Human Services
Education$607,550Recreation & Sports$310,000Environment$275,000Youth Development$185,700Other$284,930Food & Nutrition$119,900Human Services$80,400

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 budgetYERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $607,550 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetLAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC: $310,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetGROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY: $275,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetAlbany Park Theater Project: $185,700 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $118,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $78,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT UP HOPE INC: $47,800 over 3y, 41% of budgetNIMBUS ARTS: $40,300 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPiven Theatre Workshop: $30,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR BETTER LIVING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE FOR REAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITI OUTREACH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC: $875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $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.

The Chicago Community…Kunes Family Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
The Chicago Community TrustIL14.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Kunes Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 MICHAEL D AND JOLYNN BLAIR FAMILY FOUNDATION co JANUS & ASSOC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MICHAEL D AND JOLYNN BLAIR FAMILY FOUNDATION co JANUS & ASSOC. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 33 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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