Wisconsin · Private foundation
Jf Ahern Co Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Jf Ahern Co Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 15 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $97k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $96k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $79k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $88k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $65k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $80k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $84k | 43% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys Springs Academy | $1,042,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Agnesian Healthcare Foundation Inc | $140,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Milwaukee School of Engineering | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Badgerland Youth for Christ Inc | $47,500 | 9 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Fond Du Lac Inc | $28,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Beacon Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 21% |
| Fond Du Lac Humane Society | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Cops for Kids Foundation Inc | $23,500 | 6 | 35% |
| Moraine Park Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($143k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jf Ahern Co Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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.
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
How this is measured
About Jf Ahern Co Foundation
- How much does Jf Ahern Co Foundation give?
- Jf Ahern Co Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $1,089,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jf Ahern Co Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (72%), Health (13%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Jf Ahern Co Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Marys Springs Academy ($1.0M), Agnesian Healthcare Foundation Inc ($140k), Milwaukee School of Engineering ($70k).
- Does Jf Ahern Co Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jf Ahern Co Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jf Ahern Co Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fond Du Lac Area Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation.
- Where is Jf Ahern Co Foundation based?
- Jf Ahern Co Foundation is based in WI.
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