· Private foundation
Janesville Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE | $300,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY | $75,000 |
| MILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| CANDID INC | $1,750 |
| READING IS BETTER WITH H AND CHEDDAR INC | $1,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k 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
- HOHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $339k · revenue +136%
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC2× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +148%
- YOYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC4× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- FIFISCC INCone grant, 2024 · $260k · revenue -68%
- KIKANDU INDUSTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- DJDOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -22%
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.
Fox cities chamber of commerce and industry, inc. is dedicated to developing, advancing, and promoting the economic, industrial, commerical, professional, cultural, and civic welfare of the fox cities area.
Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members
The woman's club of wisconsin cultivates educational, cultural, philanthropic, and social exchange to inspire engagement in the community.
The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
The chamber of manitowoc is a member-driven organization that provides resources and services to promote and maintain a strong business environment.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The jobs first coalition (jfc) works to make the creation and retention of family-supporting jobs the top priority of policymakers and community leaders in wisconsin.
The natural resource development association supports policies that lead to proper, necessary, and conscientious resource development and conservation. by engaging community leaders, laborers, manufacturers, and job creators in the…
To provide leadership and to serve and represent our members so their businesses and our communities will prosper.
To strengthen our member businesses and enhance our community by building business success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Blackhawk Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is Candid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 29 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 Forward Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FISCC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KANDU INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds JANESVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JANESVILLE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIER'S EDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ROCK AQUA JAYS WATER SKI CLUB INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Jpc Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Claremont S Jackman Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Kennedy Family Foundation Inc · United Way Blackhawk Region Inc · Seneca Foods Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · George K Tallman Trust Xxxxx0004 · Mercy Health System Corporation · Parker Foundation
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 Janesville 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.
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