California · Nonprofit
Heather Janikowski Foundation
Heather Janikowski Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Sanborn Family Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $80k
What Heather Janikowski Foundation does
Mission
Heather loved to support the local farmers markets and small shops as well as advocating for children and animals through a variety of non profit organizations and events. She was a natural born leader and with her participation and ability to rally, goals always superseded expectations. As a teacher, she belived in the importance of education and loving the whole child."Every child deserves a chance, we just need to love them and accept them for who they are."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kicking Cancer
$0 spentDo It For Her
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $58k to $80k (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Heather Janikowski Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Dan Janikowski
CEO
Board chair
Alyssa Wichterman
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of Heather Janikowski Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Heather Janikowski Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Heather Janikowski Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heather Janikowski Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Heather Janikowski Foundation?
- Heather Janikowski Foundation (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Sanborn Family Foundation ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Heather Janikowski Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to Heather Janikowski Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heather Janikowski Foundation?
- Sanborn Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heather Janikowski Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing