· Private foundation
Keefe Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPIRIT OF HOPE HOMELESS SHELTER | $4,500 |
| BURLINGTON TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER | $4,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION | $4,500 |
| TURNING POINT | $4,500 |
| UNITED WAY WALWORTH COUNTY | $4,500 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF FAMILY VIOLENCE | $4,500 |
| BIG FOOT FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| HAROLD JOHNSON FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| ELKHORN FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $3,500 |
| SMILES | $2,500 |
| OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- VSVIP SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2021 · $23k · revenue +33%
OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC5× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +177%- NBNEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC5× · 2017–2021 · $19k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- MCMISC CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2019 · $8k
AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +3%- EFEPILEPSY FAMILIES SOUTHEAST WI INCone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -25%
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.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Distribute food to needy families and individuals.
To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.
Furnish needy famililes food
Food pantry and clothing closet
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…
Assisting those in need in our area
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
The Christian mission of the Geneseo-Atkinson food Pantry is to provide food, clothing, and short-term emergency assistance for families and individuals residing in Geneseo (61254) or Atkinson (61235) zip code areas.
Free food pantry. The Organization distributes free food to over 100 needy families per week, totaling almost 5000 visits per year. Over 70 individual volunteers receive, organize, and distribute over 200,000 pounds of food annually.
Provide Food Assistance to Needy Families and Individuals
Serve the poor
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Burlington Transitional Living and the most unlike its peers is Epilepsy Families Southeast Wi Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 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 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 VIP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS APFV INC ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIDE BY SIDE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ELKHORN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKES FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON TRANSITIONAL LIVING ↗
- Who funds Turning Point Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds TWIN LAKES AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GAVERS COMMUNITY CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDIO 84 INC ↗
- Who funds WALWORTH COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE 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: Kunes Family Foundation · United Way of Walworth County · Kikkoman Foods Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Ulla & Bertil Brunk Foundation Inc · The Kara Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Tom & Donna Neshek Family Foundation · Sbk Stearns Family Foundation · The Simms Family Foundation · Shodeen Family 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 Keefe Foundation Inc 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.