· Private foundation
Jf Ahern Co Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $7,500 |
| YMCA OF FOND DU LAC | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $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 |
| ARC OF FOND DU LAC | $2,500 |
| STOUT UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS - FDL CHAPTER | $2,500 |
| PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BFBEACON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -13%
- FDFOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -53%
- SCSOLUTIONS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +95%
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.
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.
To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
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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.
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The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
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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.
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How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 BEACON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UWO-FOND DU LAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER 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 FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASTOP INC ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP PARTNERS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jf Ahern Co Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jf Ahern Co Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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