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Janesville Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$499k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Community Improvement$1.2MArts & Culture$468kHealth$349kRecreation & Sports$332kYouth Development$302kHuman Services$231kEducation$175kEmployment$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $50k → 12%ECHO INC: $25k → 10%GIFTS MEN'S SHELTER: $10k → 10%ECHO INC: $5k → 10%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $4k → 10%YWCA ROCK COUNTY: $3k → 10%YWCA ROCK COUNTY: $2k → 10%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 15 repeat orgs$781k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$2.6M
$479k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-19%

Still filing today

87%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • HO
    HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $339k · revenue +136%
  • CM
    CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +148%
  • YO
    YMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • FI
    FISCC INC
    one grant, 2024 · $260k · revenue -68%
  • KI
    KANDU INDUSTRIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • DJ
    DOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -22%
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
Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc

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.

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2
Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members

—
3
Woman's Club of Wisconsin

The woman's club of wisconsin cultivates educational, cultural, philanthropic, and social exchange to inspire engagement in the community.

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4
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
6
The Chamber of Manitowoc County Inc

The chamber of manitowoc is a member-driven organization that provides resources and services to promote and maintain a strong business environment.

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7
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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8
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
9
The Jobs First Coalition Inc

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.

Employment
10
Natural Resource Development Association Inc

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…

Environment
11
Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce

To provide leadership and to serve and represent our members so their businesses and our communities will prosper.

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12
Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce Inc

To strengthen our member businesses and enhance our community by building business success.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Blackhawk Region Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
11/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Forward Foundation Inc: $1,164,764 · Community ImprovementForward Foundation IncFISCC INC: $260,000 · Community ImprovementFISCC INC+2 more: $36,000 · Community ImprovementCITY OF JANESVILLE: $235,579 · OtherCITY OF JANESVILLEYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC: $190,000 · OtherYMCA OF NORTHERN RO…BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherBLACKHAWK TECHNICAL…UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC: $30,000 · Other+10 more: $48,600 · Other+10 moreCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS MUSEU…MILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $132,000 · Arts & CultureMILTON HISTORIC…JANESVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $82,667 · Arts & CultureJANESVILLE PERF…ROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,800 · Arts & CultureROCK COUNTY HIS…HEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $339,000 · HealthHEALTHNET O…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…KANDU INDUSTRIES INC: $100,000 · EmploymentGOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesEVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $8,849 · Human Services
Community Improvement$1,460,764Other$579,179Arts & Culture$465,467Health$349,000Youth Development$300,000Employment$100,000Human Services$98,849

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetForward Foundation Inc: $1,164,764 over 6y, 56% of budgetHEALTHNET OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $339,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFISCC INC: $260,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $200,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC: $190,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $132,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetKANDU INDUSTRIES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJANESVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $82,667 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetBLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $50,800 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN JANESVILLE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANDID: $13,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROCK COUNTY INC: $8,849 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJANESVILLE INNOVATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLACIER'S EDGE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCK AQUA JAYS WATER SKI CLUB INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Alliant Energy Founda…Jpc FoundationBaird Foundation IncClaremont S Jackman F…Kennedy Family Founda…United Way Blackhawk …Seneca Foods Foundati…Green Bay Packers Fou…George K Tallman Trus…Mercy Health System C…Parker Foundation
Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin IncWI38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Janesville Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Janesville Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 29 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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