Wisconsin · Private foundation
Janesville Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $499k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Janesville Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $395k 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 | 7 | $499k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $487k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $344k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $445k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $506k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $329k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $397k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $25k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Foundation Inc | $1,164,764 | 6 | 56% |
| Healthnet of Rock County Inc | $339,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Janesville Inc | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fiscc Inc | $260,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Childrens Museum of Rock County Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 4% |
| YMCA of Northern Rock County Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Milton Historical Society | $132,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Kandu Industries Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Janesville Performing Arts Center Inc | $82,667 | 7 | 4% |
| Blackhawk Technical College Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($244k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Janesville Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Janesville Foundation Inc
- How much does Janesville Foundation Inc give?
- Janesville Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $499,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Janesville Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (36%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (10%).
- Who are Janesville Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Forward Foundation Inc ($1.2M), Healthnet of Rock County Inc ($339k), Boys & Girls Club of Janesville Inc ($300k).
- Does Janesville Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Janesville Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Janesville Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Jpc Foundation.
- Where is Janesville Foundation Inc based?
- Janesville Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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