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The Jana Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$14k
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.

Education$257kArts & Culture$123kPhilanthropy$113kHuman Services$109kEnvironment$76kHealth$64kInternational$41kYouth Development$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAFE PASSAGE$14,000
PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER$11,000
GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL$7,500
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$7,500
GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK OF MAINE$6,000
COMMUNITY FUND FOR ST VINCENT &$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
WOMEN UNITED AROUND THE WORLD$2,500
MAINE NEEDS$2,500
WETA$2,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PACIFIC REFUGEEE SUPPORT GROUP: $500 → 12%PACIFIC REFUGEEE SUPPORT GROUP: $250 → 12%International Refugee Assistance Project: $250 → 17%MAINE NEEDS: $6k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $3k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
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.
$872k · 66 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
8

Total granted

$872k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • Safe Passage
    9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +40%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +21%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • PH
    PROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF HAMDEN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • CR
    CHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
2
Maine Farmland Trust

Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.

Food & Nutrition
3
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
4
Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries

Secure a sustainable future for fisheries and fishing communities in Eastern Maine and beyond.

Science & Tech
5
Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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6
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
7
Presumpscot Regional Land Trust

We engage with communities to conserve, steward, and provide access to local lands and clean water for current and future generations to enjoy.

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8
Islesboro Islands Trust

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…

Philanthropy
9
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
10
Maine Media College

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…

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11
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

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.

Human Services
12
Maine Climate Action Now

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 75 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
35/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

317 Main: $98,000 · Other317 MainPreble Street Resource Center: $93,500 · OtherPreble Street Resource CenterGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL: $67,500 · OtherGERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOLPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NNE: $24,000 · OtherTHE COLLABORATIVE SCHOOL: $22,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FUND FOR ST VINCENT &: $21,000 · Other+36 more: $151,800 · Other+36 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $62,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES …WAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationWAYNFLETE SCH…MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationMORRISTOWN-BE…Falmouth Memorial Library Association: $9,500 · EducationFalmouth Memo…+4 more: $6,000 · Education+4 moreSafe Passage: $64,000 · InternationalSafe PassageMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SAN…Partners for World Health: $6,000 · InternationalPartners for…+1 more: $500 · InternationalUnited Way Inc: $34,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUN…UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $13,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …Maine Audubon Society: $13,000 · EnvironmentMaine Aud…Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $10,500 · EnvironmentNatural R…FALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $10,500 · EnvironmentFALMOUTH …EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 · EnvironmentEASTERN S…Maine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,500 · EnvironmentMaine Coa…PORTLAND TRAILS: $6,500 · EnvironmentPORTLAND …SHORERIVERS INC: $3,000 · Environment+4 more: $3,850 · EnvironmentGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $8,000 · Arts & CultureONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE: $3,500 · Arts & CultureMaine Academy of Modern Music: $2,250 · Arts & CultureMILESTONE RECOVERY: $19,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$478,300Education$107,000International$98,500Philanthropy$84,500Environment$75,350Arts & Culture$23,750Health$19,500

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 budgetSafe Passage: $64,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $62,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $34,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMILESTONE RECOVERY: $19,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWAYNFLETE SCHOOL: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJobs for Maine's Graduates Inc: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC: $12,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFALMOUTH CONSERVATION TRUST DBA FALMOUTH LAND TRUST: $10,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChester River Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFalmouth Memorial Library Association: $9,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Needs Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND TRAILS: $6,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPartners for World Health: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE: $3,850 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetONE LONGFELLOW SQUARE: $3,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSHORERIVERS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Academy of Modern Music: $2,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Huts & Trails: $2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF HAMDEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPEX YOUTH CONNECTION: $1,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLA: $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF PORTLAND ADULT EDUCATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $600 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.

  • 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR ST VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MILESTONE RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Jobs for Maine's Graduates Inc ↗
  • Who funds MORRISTOWN-BEARD SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOME DBA QUALITY HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationHorizon Foundation IncSaco & Biddeford Savi…Onion FoundationElmina B Sewall Found…Davis Family Foundati…The Apple Lane Founda…The Widgeon Point Cha…Lennox FoundationRoger K Berle Charita…Murray Charitable Tru…
Maine Community Foundation IncME41.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Jana Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jana Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 75 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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