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.

Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation

Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$446k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$33k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$431kEducation$395kHealth$380kHousing & Shelter$363kArts & Culture$319kYouth Development$291kPhilanthropy$249kHuman Services$219kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k19 grants · $98k
$10k–50k23 grants · $348k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN	$33,325
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE	$30,000
KIDS FORWARD	$17,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC	$15,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$15,000
PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER	$15,000
RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION	$15,000
ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC	$15,000
CURATIVE CARE NETWORK INC	$15,000
MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000
TEN CHIMNEY'S FOUNDATION	$15,000
PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC	$15,000
CATHEDRAL CENTER	$15,000
COA YOUTH & FAMILY CENTERS	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $378k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.2M · 58 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+28%

Still filing today

67%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthReligionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +54%
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PENFIELD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +18%
TEN CHIMNEYS FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +4%

Funded once

WALNUT WAY CONSERVATION CORPORATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +96%
KS
KRADWELL SCHOOL INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +26%
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +3%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Water Commons Inc

Milwaukee water commons is helping catalyze milwaukee as a true model water city-a place where we all have a stake in the health of our waters and all share in their stewardship and benefits. we are advancing our community envisioned water…

Environment

Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

Legacy Redevelopment Corporation

Legacy redevelopment corporation (lrc) is a non-profit community development financial institution (cdfi) revolving loan fund whose mission is to enhance neighborhood vitality, facilitate a sustainable and economically diverse community,…

Housing & Shelter

Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

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Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education

Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

—

Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

—

Portal Inc

To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…

Employment

Milwaukee Public Theatre Inc

Making the arts accessible to all

—

Milwaukee Development Corporation

-instigate, implement, participate in and promote such activities as shall, in the judgment of mdc, tend to support the general community interest in a strong, vital, aesthetically exciting and economically viable greater milwaukee…

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walnut Way Conservation Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Robert Conner Dawes Fund Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 74 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

50/50

Grantees still filing

34/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,615,250Human Services$378,000Education$358,750Arts & Culture$342,500Philanthropy$260,000Health$215,000Religion$132,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI62.9× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles D Jacobus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home