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Sl Jan Foundation at a glance

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Sl Jan Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2026still arriving
17
Grants FY2026still arriving
5
States reached
$1k
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, FY2024 to 2026.

Animals$5kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Benefit$1kEnvironment$750Arts & Culture$434Employment$72
02FY2026 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
5
States reached
$325k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Turning Point USA$1,000
The Jane Goodall Institute$1,000
Nine Lives Foundation$895
Orphan Kitten Club$553
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$518
Monterey Bay Aquarium$500
Humane Society Silicon Valley$500
NutritionFactsorg$262
American Horticultural Society$250
Filoli$249
Nine Lives Foundation$122
Nine Lives Foundation$117
Nine Lives Foundation$108
Nine Lives Foundation$101
Creating Coding Careers$72
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Turning Point USA: $1k → 11%Nine Lives Foundation: $895 → 7%Humane Society Silicon Valley: $567 → 8%Creating Coding Careers: $72 → 11%Monterey Bay Aquarium: $500 → 12%Pasadena Humane: $524 → 14%Meow Parlour: $238 → 17%The Jane Goodall Institute: $1k → 14%American Horticultural Society: $250 → 6%Nine Lives Foundation: $250 → 7%Humane Society Silicon Valley: $500 → 8%Nine Lives Foundation: $122 → 7%Second Harvest of Silicon Valley: $518 → 8%Nine Lives Foundation: $117 → 7%Nine Lives Foundation: $108 → 7%Nine Lives Foundation: $101 → 7%Nine Lives Foundation: $71 → 7%Nine Lives Foundation: $70 → 7%Filoli: $249 → 7%Filoli: $185 → 7%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.
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4k · 4 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$4k
$762

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+25%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25’26
AnimalsFood & NutritionEnvironmentEmploymentOther
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

  • NL
    Nine Lives Foundation
    2× · 2025–2026 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY
    2× · 2025–2026 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • NI
    Nutritionfactsorg Inc
    3× · 2024–2026 · $1k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • PH
    PASADENA HUMANE
    one grant, 2025 · $524 · revenue +25%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2025 · $238
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
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
2
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
3
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
4
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You Corporation

To end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats globally, by developing food that will spay and neuter them, without surgery and end the overpopulation problem without killing.

Animals
5
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
6
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
7
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
8
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
9
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
10
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…

Animals
11
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
12
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation; the most unlike its peers is Creating Coding Careers. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Nine Lives Foundation: $1,734 · AnimalsNine Lives FoundationHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $1,067 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEYJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $1,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVAT…ORPHAN KITTEN CLUB INC: $553 · AnimalsORPHAN KITTEN CLUB INCPASADENA HUMANE: $524 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANEMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $500 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCFiloli: $434 · OtherFiloliIndividual grant recipient: $238 · OtherIndividual grant reci…Nutritionfactsorg Inc: $1,040 · Food & NutritionNutritionfactsorg I…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $518 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF S…AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $250 · EnvironmentCREATING CODING CAREERS: $72 · Employment
Animals$5,378Other$1,672Food & Nutrition$1,558Environment$250Employment$72

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNine Lives Foundation: $1,734 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $1,067 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $1,040 over 3y, 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Sl Jan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sl Jan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 13 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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