North Carolina · Nonprofit
JANES FUND
JANES FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,011,903 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($1,950,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $716k
What Janes Fund does
Mission
Jane's fund provides encouragement and financial support to students attending under-resourced schools and families with a child battling terminal cancer.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provided financial assistance including rent, mortgage, car or utility payments, and funeral costs to 44 families (21 families in 2023) in financial distress due to a child dying of terminal pediatric cancer. The families chosen to receive financial assistance were determined to be in distress by the team of oncology social workers caring for the patients within a hospital system. Payments were made directly to providers.
$820,560 spentof which $774,812 as grants42% of program spendingProvided essential support to under-resourced public schools assisting economically disadvantaged children/families as determined by the individual school. Items include school uniforms, laptop computers for graduating seniors going on to college or higher education, vans providing transportation to and from after-school programming, an ice-cream truck to celebrate students ending the school year who have earned the honor of advancing to the next grade level, point stores, overnight and day field trips, musical instruments, football uniforms, $100 bill for teacher appreciation, and more. These projects supported 19,712 students and 544 teachers.
$820,561 spentof which $774,812 as grants43% of program spendingProvided funds to support summer camps, out of school sports, and other enrichment opportunities for children who would not otherwise have access to them. This includes , scholarships to a college prep summer school program for 6 students, summer sports programming to 79 kids in july, summer camp tuition for 30 kids, and after school lacrosse clinic for 200 students.
$289,610 spentof which $273,463 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,930,731.
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 2022 to 2023, from $733k to $440k (−40%).
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.
103% of JANES FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lauren Harnett
Executive director thru june 2024
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $507k → $1.3M.
14 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JANES FUND’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.
How concentrated its funding is
JANES FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund JANES FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
92% of JANES FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $303k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
JANES FUND has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JANES FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JANES FUND: 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 JANES FUND?
- JANES FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,011,903 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($1,950,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JANES FUND have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,011,903 in grants to JANES FUND, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JANES FUND?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $1,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JANES FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing