· Private foundation
Joseph and Sharon Darcey Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $64,000 |
| ST JUDE ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| HAUS OF PEACE | $20,000 |
| CORNERSTONE OF GRACE | $20,000 |
| MCLANE COMPANY FOLDS OF HONOR | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF WATERTOWN CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $10,000 |
| MOUNT MERCY UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $5,000 |
| UW MADISON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WATERTOWN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| WATERTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| WATERTOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- HOHaus of Peace5× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +22%
- MFMOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +3%
- WHWatertown Historical Society5× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +947%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $45k
- WLWATERTOWN LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SHST HENRYS CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $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.
addressing food insecurity within the Waterville, NY School District and beyond
We provide financial and spiritual aid to the underprivileged, including rent and utility assistance, food, clothing, household items so they can meet their financial obligations caused by unexpected circumstances. We served over 46 people…
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
To supply food to the under privileged.
The mission of the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce is to connect members with one another and provide resources that foster growth and sustainability.
The mission of the marshall waterloo food pantry in wisconsin is to ensure that everyone facing food insecurity in their community can access short-term food assistance while fostering hope and dignity. we believe no one should go hungry.
Assisting those in need in our area
Provide food,clothing,shelter,utilities,spiritual and compassionate assistance for needy families primarily in racine county
Serve the poor
To feed children in need in the area
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
Distribute food to needy families and individuals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 43 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 ST JUDE ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Haus of Peace ↗
- Who funds MOUND FARM HOLDINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Watertown Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone of Grace ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Watertown Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ADORATION ABODE INC ↗
- Who funds Watertown Family Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
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: Earl and Eugenia Quirk Foundation Inc · The William and Cathy Kwapil Foundation Inc · Greater Watertown Community Health Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Joseph and Sharon Darcey 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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