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John T and Suzanne S Jacobus Family Foundation at a glance

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John T and Suzanne S Jacobus Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$197kHousing & Shelter$164kPhilanthropy$85kEnvironment$75kArts & Culture$59kHealth$31kEducation$24kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER$15,000
URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHARLOTTE REGI$10,000
CHARLOTTE FILM SOCIETY$10,000
ROOF ABOVE$10,000
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES$10,000
THE RELATIVES$7,202
SAFE ALLIANCE$5,000
UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC$3,000
CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA$3,000
UWM FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE ALLIANCE: $20k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $6k → 10%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 5%SAFE ALLIANCE: $6k → 10%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 5%SAFE ALLIANCE: $6k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%THE WOMEN'S CENTER: $5k → 5%THE RELATIVES: $7k → 10%MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $6k → 17%MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER: $3k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $20k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $20k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $15k → 17%SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER: $15k → 17%SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE: $6k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $2k → 17%SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE: $2k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $2k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $2k → 17%PATHFINDERS: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
WI
NY
OH
NJ
CA
AZ
NC
DC
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$534k · 31 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$534k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+33%

Still filing today

84%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +86%
  • SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +36%
  • SA
    Safe Alliance Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • JA
    JULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +72%
  • SH
    ST HYACINTH'S PARISH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • AS
    AUTISM SPEAKS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -38%
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.

1
Burnett Medical Center Inc

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…

Health
2
Community Care Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
3
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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4
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
5
Cap Services Inc

Cap services, inc.'s mission is to transform people and communities to advance social and economic justice.

Human Services
6
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
7
Reedsburg Area Medical Center

Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.

Health
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Radio Milwaukee Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
11
Wisconsin School Counselor Association Inc

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.

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12
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Service Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $77,550 · Human ServicesSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CEN…Safe Alliance Inc: $43,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance IncTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INCTHE MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $8,550 · Human ServicesTHE MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENT…PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INC: $7,202 · Human ServicesFOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $20,000 · OtherFOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA CO…COMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $18,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INCMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $18,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHARLOTTE REGI: $10,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHARL…SMILE TRAIN INC: $9,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCWAUKESHA WOMEN'S CENTER: $8,550 · OtherWAUKESHA WOMEN'S CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $9,250 · OtherTHE UWM FOUNDATION INCTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $6,500 · Other+20 more: $54,900 · Other+20 moreCOMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $82,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY SERVICE AL…BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $43,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES I…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $72,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED…THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK …URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $75,000 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOG…MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE …MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $10,500 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE …ROOF ABOVE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE…Charlotte Film Society: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCharlotte …UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED PER…UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureJULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSHELTER FROM THE STORM INC: $7,550 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $6,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Human Services$159,302Other$160,200Housing & Shelter$125,500Philanthropy$82,000Environment$75,000Arts & Culture$63,000Health$29,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE ALLIANCE: $82,500 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetSOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC: $77,550 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $72,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $43,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC: $43,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJULIE AND MICHAEL TRACY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCharlotte Film Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $9,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MILWAUKEE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $8,550 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $7,202 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS OF THE DESERT: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends for Health in Haiti Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHope Center Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELMBROOK HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBADGER INSTITUTE INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN POLICY FORUM INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Greater…Greater Milwaukee Fou…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Baird Foundation IncJoseph and Vera Zilbe…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Weiss Family Foundati…Ralph Evinrude Founda…Harley-Davidson Found…Waukesha County Commu…Green Bay Packers Fou…
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 T and Suzanne S Jacobus Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John T and Suzanne S Jacobus Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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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    Find your warmest path to John T and Suzanne S Jacobus Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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