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Darren and Terry Jackson Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$3.2MReligion$133kRecreation & Sports$110kHuman Services$100kFood & Nutrition$48kPhilanthropy$41kHousing & Shelter$40kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$4,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONE ROCK FOUNDATION$25,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE$20,000
MILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE SCHOOL$15,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA$10,000
ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
TG-TYPE 1 DIEBETTES BREAK THROUGH ASSOCIATION LOS ANGELES$5,000
ST MARCUS SCHOOL$5,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$5,000
PEARLS FOR TEEN GIRLS$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
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$2,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST PAUL: $5k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER TWIN CITIES: $1k → 11%SECOND STORK: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2k → 17%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $20k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $10k → 14%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
CA
CO
NE
TN
GA
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 26 repeat orgs$624k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
30

Total granted

$3.1M
$568k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+32%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MU
    Marquette University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.8M · revenue +24%
  • ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $417k · revenue +129%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $159k · revenue +159%
  • BT
    BE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -89%
  • WE
    WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +32%
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.

1
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
2
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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4
Great Mn Schools

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.

Education
5
La Roche University

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.

Education
6
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
9
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

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…

Education
10
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
11
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
Madonna University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Marquette University: $1,790,469 · EducationMarquette UniversityTHE DREXEL FUND: $588,500 · EducationTHE DREXEL FUNDALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $416,642 · EducationALL-IN MILWAUKEE INCDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $158,851 · Education+4 more: $85,725 · EducationCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $70,340 · OtherCRISTO REY J…UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY O…THREE HOLY WOMEN CATHOLIC PARISH: $26,000 · OtherTHREE HOLY W…CHURCH OF LUMEN CHRISTI: $25,000 · OtherCHURCH OF LU…ST MARCUS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherST MARCUS LU…CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherCRISTO REY J…DEMONTREVILLE JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE: $24,000 · OtherDEMONTREVILL…ST AUGUSTINE PREPARE MILWAUKEE: $21,363 · OtherMILWAUKEE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE SCHOOL: $15,000 · Other+30 more: $163,000 · Other+30 moreBE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyLONE ROCK FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $6,091 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF PEACE: $30,000 · Human ServicesSECOND STORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST PAUL: $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $7,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE: $7,000 · InternationalAFS-USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $4,636 · InternationalGRAND RAPIDS DOMINICAN SISTERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · InternationalMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$3,040,187Other$430,703Philanthropy$142,091Human Services$90,000Housing & Shelter$30,000International$25,636Arts & Culture$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarquette University: $1,790,469 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DREXEL FUND: $588,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $416,642 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetDR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC: $158,851 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBE THE DIFFERENCE NIL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $20,725 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDIO-180: $12,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPearls for Teen Girls Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSECOND STORK: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHIMBOTE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA NEEDS YOU: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFS-USA INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF ST PAUL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRED WELLS TENNIS AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $4,636 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS DOMINICAN SISTERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE STREET MINISTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARRUPE VIRTUAL LEARNING INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
  • Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds LONE ROCK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDIO-180 ↗
  • 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 SECOND STORK ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Baird Foundation IncSaint Paul & Minnesot…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustWeiss Family Foundati…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Waukesha County Commu…Joseph and Vera Zilbe…
United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County IncWI25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Darren and Terry Jackson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darren and Terry Jackson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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