How much does John C Bock Foundation give?

John C Bock Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $352,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does John C Bock Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (74%), Education (10%), Animals (6%).

Who are John C Bock Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northland College ($232k), Door County Land Trust Inc ($213k), Northwoods Land Trust Inc ($145k).

Does John C Bock Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John C Bock Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as John C Bock Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James E Dutton Foundation Inc, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation.

Where is John C Bock Foundation based?

John C Bock Foundation is based in WI.

John C Bock Foundation

John C Bock Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

John C Bock Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$352k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

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 2024.

Environment$1.9MEducation$252kAnimals$153kArts & Culture$65kFood & Nutrition$60kHuman Services$41kReligion$30kYouth Development$23kOther$0

02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $92k
$10k–50k11 grants · $160k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$7.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NORTHLAND COLLEGE	$100,000
DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC	$40,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST	$20,000
NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC	$20,000
NORTHWOODS LAND TRUST INC	$10,000
THE NORTHWOODS ALLIANCE INCORPORATED	$10,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC	$10,000
THE BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC	$10,000
THE OZAUKEE WASHINGTON LAND TRUST INC	$10,000
URBAN TREE ALLIANCE LTD	$10,000
GATHERING WATERS INC	$10,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC	$8,500
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC	$7,500
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD	$7,500

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

$2.3M · 37 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+12%

Still filing today

95%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsYouth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +182%
NL
NORTHWOODS LAND TRUST INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +82%
EL
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST
8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +72%

Funded once

TP
TALL PINES CONSERVANCY
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -35%
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +48%
CO
CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +17%

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.

Southeast Wisconsin Land Conservancy

Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.

Environment

Milwaukee Audubon Society Inc

Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship

Environment

Wisconsin Wildlife Federation Inc

The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.

Environment

Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment

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

Green Lake Conservancy Inc

The green lake conservancy permanently and proactively protects and preserves special places, primarily in the green lake watershed and county by oppering conservation expertise, strattegies, and legal tools for the benefits of humans,…

Environment

Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment

Heartlands Conservancy

The mission of heartlands conservancy is to empower and colaborate with the people of southern illinois to advance and protect the health of our distinctive communities and nationally significant natural and cultural resources.

Environment

Wild Rivers Conservancy of the St Croix & Namekagon

The mission of wild rivers conservancy of the st. croix & namekagon is to inspire stewardship to forever ensure the rare ecological integrity of the st. croix and namekagon riverway. the conservancy of the st. croix and namekagon works…

Environment

Wisconsin Wetlands Association Inc

Wisconsin Wetlands Association is dedicated to the protection, restoration, and enjoyment of wetlands and associated ecosystems through science-based programs, education, and advocacy.

Environment

Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Valley Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 56 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)

52/54

Grantees still filing

43/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$1,550,140Other$460,663Education$232,051Animals$137,500Youth Development$66,300Human Services$41,000Arts & Culture$40,000

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.

James E Dutton Foundation IncWI38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James E Dutton Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · The Nature Conservancy · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Brookby Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation 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 John C Bock Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John C Bock Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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