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Judd S Alexander Foundation at a glance

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Judd S Alexander Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MPublic Benefit$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEnvironment$775kYouth Development$751kPhilanthropy$685kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $683k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$18,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY$35,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$35,000
LIBERTAS INSTITUTE$30,000
WAUSAU EAST HIGH SCHOOL$28,050
WOODSON YMCA INC$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES INC: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF LA CROSSE: $53k → 12%WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 17%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $5k → 17%ST ANTHONY'S OF MARATHON INC: $10k → 11%THE HAGAR HOUSE: $100k → 11%HOMME HEIGHTS INC: $100k → 11%THE HAGAR HOUSE: $50k → 11%HOPE LIFE CENTER: $10k → 11%HOPE LIFE CENTER: $10k → 11%THE HAGAR HOUSE: $5k → 11%THE HAGAR HOUSE: $5k → 11%HOPE LIFE CENTER: $2k → 11%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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 45 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
40

Total granted

$8.7M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationHealthPublic 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

  • WY
    WOODSON YMCA INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +93%
  • MC
    MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $759k · revenue ×15
  • NT
    NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $632k · revenue +48% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • WR
    WAUSAU REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +35%
  • AH
    ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +13%
  • NC
    NORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
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
Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights
2
Wisconsin Rural Opportunities Inc

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.

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3
Wisconsin Progress Institute Inc

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.

Education
4
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Inc

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.

—
5
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
8
Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing & Productivity

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.

Education
9
Waukesha County Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
10
Our Wisconsin Revolution Inc

To promote the common good and general welfare of the people of wisconsin.

Civil Rights
11
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Waukesha County Center for Growth Inc

To serve as the central point of contact for businesses looking to grow in waukesha county.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wmc Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 97 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
39/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOODSON YMCA INC: $1,140,000 · OtherWOODSON YMCA INCCITY OF WAUSAU: $697,920 · OtherCITY OF WAUSAUGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD: $662,000 · OtherGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTDNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $632,034 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCBRIDGE STREET MISSION INC: $510,000 · OtherBRIDGE STREET MISSION INCWISCONSINEYE: $360,000 · OtherWAUSAU REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $350,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $385,000 · Other+71 more: $2,639,825 · Other+71 moreMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $759,000 · Arts & CultureMARATHON COUN…GRAND THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND THEATRE…CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $310,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S IM…+3 more: $21,000 · Arts & CultureDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $590,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC: $242,500 · EducationWAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC: $750,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $430,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $254,938 · PhilanthropyASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · HealthNORTH CENTRAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $475,000 · Youth Development
Other$7,376,779Arts & Culture$1,415,000Education$883,500Environment$750,000Philanthropy$684,938Health$655,000Youth Development$475,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODSON YMCA INC: $1,140,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $759,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD: $662,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $632,034 over 4y, 39% of budgetDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $590,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $475,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $430,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $385,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetWAUSAU REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $350,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $310,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $254,938 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT INC: $242,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetBADGER INSTITUTE INC: $167,500 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetTHE HAGAR HOUSE INC: $160,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetMCDEVCO INC: $158,297 over 5y, 14% of budgetWAUSAU CURLING CLUB: $150,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $135,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetWAUSAU KAYAKCANOE CORPORATION: $110,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHOMME HEIGHTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $52,900 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFaith Christian Academy Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRIB MOUNTAIN BOWMEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetWAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $39,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC: $35,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetWISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFoundation for Economic Education Inc: $31,900 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCentergy Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $27,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE LIFE CENTER INC: $21,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST ANTHONY'S OF MARATHON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWMC FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWISCONSIN POLICY FORUM INC: $2,970 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHANNAH CENTER INC: $2,925 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY BADGER GIRLS STATE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN BADGER CAMP INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Ba & Esther Greenheck…Dwight and Linda Davi…Dudley Foundation IncWalter Alexander Foun…Incrediblebank Founda…Green Bay Packers Fou…Bell Family Charitabl…Church Mutual Insuran…The Macdonald Foundat…Wisconsin Public Serv…George Kress Foundati…
Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin IncWI82.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Judd S Alexander Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judd S Alexander Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Judd S Alexander Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Judd S Alexander 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 97 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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