· Private foundation
Judd S Alexander Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $683k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC | $750,000 |
| CITY OF WAUSAU | $235,920 |
| GREATER WAUSAU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $125,000 |
| THE HAGAR HOUSE | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC | $62,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC | $60,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC | $50,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| BADGER INSTITUTE | $45,000 |
| TROOP 435 ALUMNI & FRIENDS | $40,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $35,000 |
| WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY | $35,000 |
| LIBERTAS INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| WAUSAU EAST HIGH SCHOOL | $28,050 |
| WOODSON YMCA INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 11 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- WYWOODSON YMCA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +93%
- MCMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY4× · 2017–2024 · $759k · revenue +716%
- NTNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2023 · $632k · revenue +48% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- WRWAUSAU REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +35%
- AHASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +13%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $250k
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.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.
The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
To serve as the central point of contact for businesses looking to grow in waukesha county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wmc Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 97 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 WOODSON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MCDEVCO INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU CURLING CLUB ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU KAYAKCANOE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMME HEIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
- Who funds Faith Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds RIB MOUNTAIN BOWMEN INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Walter Alexander Foundation Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · The Macdonald Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc
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 Judd S Alexander 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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