Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation

Analysis

Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Bellingham, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation reported income of $77k and spending of $250k, spending 323% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $259k to $77k (-70%), an average of -26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 61%. Over the whole period it spent 201% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Eleanor and Henry Jansen Foundation sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 30th percentile, and in the 25th percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Three Village STEM Enrichment Foundation Inc ($77k), Vestavia Hills Library Foundation ($77k) and Lincoln Kiwanis Foundation ($77k).

At year end it held assets of $4.9m against liabilities of $1,000, net assets of $4.9m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.