How much does Jek Foundation Inc give?

Jek Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $1,544,825 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jek Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Philanthropy (21%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Jek Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oshkosh Community YMCA ($1.9M), Boys & Girls Club of Oshkosh Inc ($1.1M), Paine Art Center & Gardens Inc ($696k).

Does Jek Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Jek Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jek Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation, J J Keller Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.

Where is Jek Foundation Inc based?

Jek Foundation Inc is based in WI.

Jek Foundation Inc

Jek Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Jek Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.4MPhilanthropy$2.3MArts & Culture$1.5MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$1.2MCommunity Improvement$652kFood & Nutrition$641kHousing & Shelter$590kOther$0

02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $23k
$10k–50k20 grants · $427k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH	$150,000
OSHKOSH COMMUNITY YMCA	$150,000
OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY	$100,000
CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES	$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH	$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$75,000
GREATER OSHKOSH HEALTHY NEIGHBOORHOODS	$70,000
OSHKOSH COMMUNITY YMCA	$50,000
SOLUTIONS RECOVERY INC	$50,000
PAINE ART CENTER AND GARDENS	$50,000
SAMARITAN COUNSELING FOX VALLEY INC	$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH	$50,000
HEADSUP FOX CITIES	$50,000
GRAND OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION	$50,000
GO-EDC FOUNDATION	$40,000

02The need

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, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.1M · 47 repeat orgs$461k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.1M

$421k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+1%

Still filing today

57%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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

OC
Oshkosh Community YMCA
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +83%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +54%
PA
PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $696k · revenue +81%

Funded once

SR
Solutions Recovery Club
one grant, 2020 · $128k
OK
OSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -34%
UW
UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +5%

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.

Oshkosh Area Community Property Corporation

To support the mission and activities of the oshkosh area community foundation corporation.

Philanthropy

Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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Greater Oshkosh Economic Development Corporation

To provide leadership, direction, coordination, and services to advance economic development in the greater oshkosh area.

Community Improvement

University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Foundation Inc

To be a proactive leader in helping shape and refine the vision of excellence of the university of wisconsin - oshkosh through: raising the awareness of the need for private support for educational priorities; building relationships to…

Education

Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce

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

—

Oconto County Economic Development Corporation

Stimulate development of the local economy, provide support to existing and prospective employers, serve as a professional resource to local units of government and promote tourism opportunities within oconto county wisconsin.

Community Improvement

Neighborhood Housing Services of Southeast Wisconsin Inc

The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…

Housing & Shelter

Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

To promote and advance educational, economic and workforce development through a partnership of business and educational representatives.

Education

One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

—

Oshkosh Family Incorporated

To administer several programs to help guide families toward self-sufficiency and a more satisfying life. these programs include representative payee services and guardianship services.

Human Services

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services

Kishwaukee United Way

To improve lives by sharing community resources

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Jasper Pickett Foundation Inc. 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

39 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. 39 of the 72 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/39

Grantees still filing

27/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,553,075Human Services$2,427,000Philanthropy$1,674,586Youth Development$1,173,000Arts & Culture$933,400Health$775,000Community Improvement$652,000

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

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.

Oshkosh Area Community Foundation CorporationWI65.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Silver Star Brands Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area United Way Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · United Way Fox Cities 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 Jek Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jek Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home