· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAFE PASSAGE | $14,000 |
| PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER | $11,000 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY FUND FOR ST VINCENT & | $6,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK OF MAINE | $6,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NNE | $5,000 |
| 317 MAIN | $4,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR WORLD HEALTH | $3,000 |
| THE COLLABORATIVE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MAINE NEEDS | $2,500 |
| WOMEN UNITED AROUND THE WORLD | $2,500 |
| WETA | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 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
Safe Passage9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +35%
THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +21%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- PHPROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF HAMDEN INCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue 0%
- CRCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.
MCAN catalyzes transformative education and action in response to the climate crisis. We seek to honor, unite and amplify the voices of youth, frontline communities, and others historically excluded from the climate conversation and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Portland Adult Education. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% 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 9% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 75 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 Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Falmouth Memorial Library Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Needs Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND TRAILS ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds My Place Teen Center 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: 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
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 The Jana Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- The Children's Center of Hamden Inc — 20% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Morristown-Beard School — 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.