Maine · Private foundation
The Jana Fund
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.
- $99k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $155k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Jana Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $99k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $110k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $96k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $105k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $99k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $103k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $88k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $99k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germantown Friends School | $67,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Safe Passage | $64,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | $62,500 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way Inc | $34,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $28,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Community Foundation for St Vincent and the Grenadines Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Way of Kent County Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Milestone Recovery | $19,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Waynflete School | $15,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($314k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jana Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Apple Lane Foundation Inc 14101830 · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Lennox Foundation · Roger K Berle Charitable Trust · Murray Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Jana Fund
- How much does The Jana Fund give?
- The Jana Fund reported 39 grants totaling $98,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jana Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (14%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are The Jana Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Germantown Friends School ($68k), Safe Passage ($64k), The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College ($63k).
- Does The Jana Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jana Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Jana Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Horizon Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Jana Fund based?
- The Jana Fund is based in ME.
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