· Private foundation
John T and Suzanne S Jacobus Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $15,000 |
| URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER | $15,000 |
| CHARLOTTE FILM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHARLOTTE REGI | $10,000 |
| ROOF ABOVE | $10,000 |
| THE RELATIVES | $7,202 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA | $3,000 |
| UWM FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
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, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 6 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- CSCOMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE6× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +86%
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +36%- SASafe Alliance Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- JAJULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +72%
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.
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…
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Service Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 53 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 COMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
- Who funds JULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Film Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM INC ↗
- Who funds THE RELATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds Friends for Health in Haiti Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Weiss Family Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation
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 John T and Suzanne S Jacobus Family 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.
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