Foundation

The Janus Henderson Foundation seeks to give back in ways that are reflective of our employee’s passions, both locally and across the world. To accomplish this, we invest in regional programmes that support the communities where we live and work, such as Junior Achievement, SeeBeyondBorders, and Musicians Making a Difference.

Junior Achievement
In 2019, the Janus Henderson Foundation announced a grant of $1,585,000 to Junior Achievement (JA) for the redevelopment of the JA Titan® programme. Currently in year six of a six-year partnership, Junior Achievement (JA) has made progress with the JA Titan® project by enabling youth to test their skills at running a company in a virtual business simulation, where participants compete as managers amid ever-changing economic conditions. Additionally, the in-classroom programme includes a comprehensive curriculum that allows teachers and volunteers to help students understand essential economic, business management, and financial concepts.
The Foundation’s support resulted in more dynamic gamification of the programme while incorporating technology that’s more engaging for students, but also allows for a more educational and impactful experience.
In addition to supporting the redevelopment of JA Titan®, Janus Henderson employees serve as Junior Achievement volunteers in several communities where Janus Henderson has offices, including but not limited to, Denver, New York, and Singapore. Junior Achievement serves more than 10.7 million students around the globe in every major geographic location where Janus Henderson has offices, making this a truly global Foundation initiative.

The Mirabel Foundation
The Mirabel Foundation is the only organisation in Australia specifically addressing the needs of children who have been orphaned or abandoned due to parental drug use. The tragedy of drug‐related deaths is compounded by the children left behind. Children without families may find themselves in foster care and sometimes separated from their siblings. The Mirabel Foundation is determined to provide the children and their caregivers with much-needed emotional and practical support. Mirabel’s programmes have made a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable children, ensuring that they are given the best possible chance of a positive, drug-free future—a future where they become valued members of the community.

Musicians Making a Difference
Creating Pathways: Alternative Education for At-Risk Youth, supported by Janus Henderson and designed by Musicians Making a Difference (MMAD), has been an important entry-level programme for those who are new to MMAD, an Australian charity that aims to transform young lives through music. MMAD delivers in-person and online creative support to engage, inspire, educate, and empower young people through the power of music and mentoring.

SeeBeyondBorders
In 2025, we initiated a multi-year collaboration with SeeBeyondBorders to support the implementation of a transformative education program across twenty government primary schools. The goal of this program is to inspire and empower 65 teachers, 21 teacher mentors, and 32 school leaders to enhance teaching and learning quality through specialized interventions that foster communities of practice. Participants, including teachers and school leaders, will undergo foundation and technical teaching interventions designed to boost their skills and confidence in teaching and leadership. These interventions will address key topics such as math, literacy, assessment, classroom management, mentoring, teacher identity, and leadership. By the conclusion of the program, we anticipate that 2,848 grades 1–3 students will have significantly improved learning outcomes, with a 34% increase in the number of students achieving Minimum Proficiency Levels in math and literacy skills.

As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility pillars, we must support our local communities through our philanthropic efforts. In the UK, our areas of focus include financial education initiatives, including Just Finance Foundation and Junior Achievement. We partner with Chapter One UK to enhance early childhood literacy through the Chapter One Programme. The Foundation also invests in making the city of London better by supporting the Lord Mayor’s Appeal Charity.

Chapter One
We are proud to support the Chapter One Programme, which enables volunteers to remotely tutor youth ages 6–7 in core reading skills every week. Through this programme, volunteers leverage virtual sessions to tutor students by reading stories, reviewing comprehension questions, and playing games to reinforce the key phonetics learned that day.
Janus Henderson was the first organisation to participate in this programme in Colorado in 2012, and with the catalytic financial support of the Janus Henderson Foundation, Chapter One was able to launch Chapter One in the UK in 2018.
Once the Foundation's initial investment was provided to Chapter One, the UK team completed the vital preparatory work for launch, including registering as a charity, recruiting enough participating schools, and identifying corporate partners to kick-start the programme at a reasonable scale. Chapter One UK has grown to 140 corporate partners and over 2,700 volunteers who support over 2,900 children in 97 schools in the UK.
Grounded in the belief that learning to read is a basic right with the power to transform lives, Chapter One programmes and services fuse technology, corporate volunteerism, and intensive support to enable meaningful human interaction.
As Seth Weinberger, IFL’s founder and US CEO, noted, ‘Janus Henderson has made a deep and enduring commitment to support our work to realise a world in which all children, regardless of background, are confidently reading to learn, grow, and thrive throughout life.’

Junior Achievement
In 2019, the Janus Henderson Foundation announced a grant of $1,585,000 to Junior Achievement (JA) for the redevelopment of the JA Titan® programme. Currently in year six of a six-year partnership, Junior Achievement (JA) has made progress with the JA Titan® project by enabling youth to test their skills at running a company in a virtual business simulation, where participants compete as managers amid ever-changing economic conditions. Additionally, the in-classroom programme includes a comprehensive curriculum that allows teachers and volunteers to help students understand essential economic, business management, and financial concepts.
The Foundation’s support resulted in more dynamic gamification of the programme while incorporating technology that’s more engaging for students, but also allows for a more educational and impactful experience.
In addition to supporting the redevelopment of JA Titan®, Janus Henderson employees serve as Junior Achievement volunteers in several communities where Janus Henderson has offices, including but not limited to, Denver, New York, and Singapore. Junior Achievement serves more than 10.7 million students around the globe in every major geographic location where Janus Henderson has offices, making this a truly global Foundation initiative.

Greenhouse Sports
The UK is grappling with a devastating cost-of-living crisis with the biggest impacts yet to come. Extreme poverty rates have left many households in a state of destitution struggling to make ends meet. These soaring levels of poverty and the resulting household stress have had a profound impact on millions of children across the country who no longer get the chance to play and experience joy. Greenhouse Sports provides accessible places and spaces for youth to thrive. Greenhouse Sports will continue to be there for these children at the times they are most vulnerable. Through the multi-year grant provided by the Janus Henderson Foundation, they partnered with seven primary programmes in 2024 and provided 1,614 coaching and mentoring hours, delivered 1,365 sessions, and reached 199 children.

Just Finance Foundation
Through our multi-year grant with Just Finance Foundation, they have reached 8,542 students across 311 classrooms and 74 schools through the facilitation of the Milo’s Money curriculum. Just Finance Foundation is a UK charity dedicated to improving financial education so that every child and family has equal opportunity to thrive.
As one component of the LifeSaver Programme, Milo’s Money is designed for youth aged 5–7 years old and educates students about money lessons engagingly and creatively. The Life Savers Programme is designed to deliver financial education training and resources to primary schools by working directly with the teachers, educators, and schools to provide a wide range of curriculum resources and practical activities. With the increase in the cost-of-living in London, teachers are leveraging this curriculum to instil both the value, and relevance, of financial education, and the importance of starting the financial literacy learning journey at an early age.

Giving back to the communities most in need is an essential part of our strategy and we must invest in education to help develop the future leaders of tomorrow. From grants and philanthropic programmes sponsored by the Janus Henderson Foundation to grass-roots volunteerism spearheaded by employees, Janus Henderson has, and continues, to make a significant impact in North America by investing in organisations like the Young Americans Center for Financial Education, Denver Scholarship Foundation and Junior Achievement.

Denver Public Schools Foundation
The Foundation has funded innovative, ground-breaking work at Denver Public Schools Foundation (DPS) that allows us to act locally, but influence education nationally. The Foundation awarded a $3 million, three-year grant to Denver Public Schools in 2008 and another $2.1 million, three-year grant to the district in 2012. Denver Public Schools has invested this money in the development of programmes designed to increase teacher effectiveness, improve student outcomes, and create unique learning environments for students that utilise today's most innovative technologies. We have also partnered with DPS to create Growth through Connections, a programme focused on student-teacher relationships, as well as the EdConnect programme, which is designed to expose students to educational careers. In 2023, we were an early adapter of their CLASS initiative, designed to provide wrap-around services for a local school. Last year, we continued to support students through employee volunteering, back-to-school initiatives, and food drives. We are proud to build on this long history of supporting critical education initiatives by investing in the futures of our most valuable resource—our youth.

Denver Scholarship Foundation
To ensure students have access to a college education, the Janus Henderson Foundation partnered with the Denver Scholarship Foundation to create the Janus Henderson Scholarship for Denver Public School students. The Denver Scholarship Foundation awarded the Janus Henderson Scholarship to 23 unique scholars in 2024. Since its inception in 2020, Janus Henderson has invested $160,000 into the needs-based scholarship, and has made college possible by supporting 105 scholarships for over 45 first-generation students who are pursuing a degree or certificate in STEM, business, economics, accounting, marketing, communications, and/or journalism.

Chapter One
We are proud to support the Chapter One Programme which enables volunteers to remotely tutor first graders in core reading skills every week. Further, the programme expanded internationally into the UK in 2018 because of the strategic support of the Janus Henderson Foundation. Grounded in the belief that learning to read is a basic right with the power to transform lives, the Chapter One programme and services fuse technology, corporate volunteerism, and intensive support to enable meaningful human interaction.
In 2023, Janus Henderson and Chapter One partnered to develop a story-writing competition for Janus Henderson’s colleagues based on the theme of financial literacy. The competition allowed our people an opportunity to engage in Innovations for Learning’s mission-driven literacy work and develop a creative children’s story. Three employees were selected to have their books published on the virtual platform. They worked closely with the editor to ensure the content was appropriate for the reading level and partnered with the illustrator to ensure the images in the virtual book reflected the rich diversity of our communities.

Junior Achievement
In 2019, the Janus Henderson Foundation announced a grant of $1,585,000 to Junior Achievement (JA) for the redevelopment of the JA Titan® programme. Currently in year six of a six-year partnership, Junior Achievement (JA) has made progress with the JA Titan® project by enabling youth to test their skills at running a company in a virtual business simulation, where participants compete as managers amid ever-changing economic conditions. Additionally, the in-classroom programme includes a comprehensive curriculum that allows teachers and volunteers to help students understand essential economic, business management, and financial concepts.
The Foundation’s support resulted in more dynamic gamification of the programme while incorporating technology that’s more engaging for students, but also allows for a more educational and impactful experience.
In addition to supporting the redevelopment of JA Titan®, Janus Henderson employees serve as Junior Achievement volunteers in several communities where Janus Henderson has offices, including but not limited to, Denver, New York, and Singapore. Junior Achievement serves more than 10.7 million students around the globe in every major geographic location where Janus Henderson has offices, making this a truly global Foundation initiative.

Young Americans Center for Financial Education
Our Foundation has been a valued partner of the Young Americans Center for Financial Education since 2001. Through our partnership, we have contributed more than $619,000 to youth financial literacy programmes. Over the last few years, the Foundation has partnered with the Young Americans Center for Financial Education with a multi-year commitment. Our grant allows us to be the exclusive sponsor of the AmeriTowne Centers located in Denver and Lakewood, Colorado. This sponsorship allows us to support over 25,000 children and 5,000 parents and teachers who participate in the AmeriTowne curriculum each year. This curriculum builds financial self-sufficiency, smart money management habits, solid business sense, and an entrepreneurial spirit.