· Private foundation
Darren and Terry Jackson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LONE ROCK FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE | $20,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| PEARLS FOR TEEN GIRLS | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TG-TYPE 1 DIEBETTES BREAK THROUGH ASSOCIATION LOS ANGELES | $5,000 |
| ST ANTHONY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,500 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST CECILIA | $3,000 |
| KINSHIP MKE INC DBA KINSHIP COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $2,500 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH | $2,000 |
| GRAND RAPIDS DOMINICAN SISTERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MUMarquette University3× · 2020–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +24%
ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $417k · revenue +129%- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC3× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +40%
Funded once
DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $159k · revenue +159%- BTBE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -89%
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INC ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds LONE ROCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO-180 ↗
- Who funds SECOND STORK ↗
- Who funds Pearls for Teen Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Weiss Family Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Darren and Terry Jackson Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.