Wisconsin · Private foundation
Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $446k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $33,325
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 42 | $446k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $396k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $404k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $323k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $395k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $347k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $409k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $296k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc | $245,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $190,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Kids Forward Inc | $153,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Penfield Children's Center Inc | $145,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Ten Chimneys Foundation Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $135,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Pathfinders Milwaukee Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Outing Association | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Preservation Fund Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Arts at Large Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($826k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Brewers Community Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation with peer funders
About Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation
- How much does Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation give?
- Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $446,175 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (15%), Education (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($245k), The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($190k), Kids Forward Inc ($153k).
- Does Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc.
- Where is Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation based?
- Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation is based in WI.
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