· Private foundation
Jf Ahern Co Foundation
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 $10k12 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY | $1,000,000 |
| AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF FOND DU LAC | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - FDL CHAPTER | $2,500 |
| STOUT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ARC OF FOND DU LAC | $2,500 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +6% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- AHAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +32%
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING6× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +17%- BYBADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FDFOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -53%
- BFBEACON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -13%
- SCSOLUTIONS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +95%
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.
To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus
Creating a better community by promoting philanthropy, awarding effective grants, and providing leadership on important community issues today and forever.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
The Lake Superior State University Foundation exists for the sole purpose of promoting, receiving, managing, and disbursing donations and contributions for the benefit of Lake Superior State University.
Provide scholarships and assistance to students and faculty for the primary benefit of southwest wisconsin technical college.
The mission of madison area technical college foundation is to enrich lives and strengthen our community through the acquisition of private funding in support of high quality open access education at madison college.
The waubonsee community college foundation was formed to advance the educational and charitable purposes of waubonsee community college. the primary objective of the foundation is to raise funds for student scholarships and educational…
The dctc foundation's mission is to foster student success and elevate the academic experience at dakota county technical college by securing resources through strong partnerships with employers, alumni, and the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
- Who funds BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEACON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UWO-FOND DU LAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASTOP INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP PARTNERS 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: Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Michels Family Foundation · Grande Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Sadoff Family Foundation · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Fond Du Lac Area United Way Inc
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 Jf Ahern Co Foundation 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.