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The Jans Foundation at a glance

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The Jans Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.1MEducation$1.7MHuman Services$1.1MInternational$270kFood & Nutrition$189kHealth$112kReligion$70kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$250,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$400,000
HIGHER GROUND SUN VALLEY$380,000
BOYS TOWN$250,000
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$200,000
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%BOYS TOWN: $250k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $250k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $200k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $200k → 12%BOYS TOWN: $200k → 12%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
ID
MI
OR
SD
CA
NE
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 8 repeat orgs$616k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$4.9M
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+97%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HG
    HIGHER GROUND USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +78%
  • FF
    Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $845k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • VM
    VINCENT MEMORIAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • FF
    FRIENDS & FAMILY COMMUNITY CONNECTION
    one grant, 2020 · $189k · revenue -100% · 35% of their budget
  • HI
    HOLY INNOCENTS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $82k
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
Hillsides

We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…

Human Services
5
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc

The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…

Health
10
Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center

Fresno community hospital and medical center's (fch&mc's) exists to better the lives of all those we serve

Health
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Didi Hirsch Psychiatric Service

The roots of the los angeles didi hirsch psychiatric service dba didi hirsch mental health services ("dhmhs") extend back to the 1930s, when a group of women funded psychiatric care for people whose lives were devastated by the depression.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHER GROUND USA INC: $2,084,900 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INCFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $1,100,000 · Human ServicesFather Flanagan's Boys…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $845,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRA…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $66,717 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL: $490,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS INDIAN …VINCENT MEMORIAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherVINCENT MEMORIAL C…HOLY INNOCENTS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $81,645 · OtherHOLY INNOCENTS CHI…ST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $50,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL…+6 more: $86,450 · Other+6 moreINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $269,826 · InternationalFRIENDS & FAMILY COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $188,766 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $60,000 · Housing & Shelter
Recreation & Sports$2,084,900Human Services$1,100,000Education$961,717Other$908,095International$269,826Philanthropy$188,766Housing & Shelter$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $2,084,900 over 5y, 16% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $845,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $269,826 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS & FAMILY COMMUNITY CONNECTION: $188,766 over 1y, 35% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $66,717 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 IncCO7.3× 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 The Jans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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