· Private foundation
Richard G Jacobus Family 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 $10k54 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $12,000 |
| HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE | $8,333 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $7,500 |
| UW-MADISON FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MILWAUKEE WAUKESHA | $6,000 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $4,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY | $4,000 |
| WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TYKES AND TEENS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
112 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 7 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +54%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +43%
- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CCCHISAGO COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNone grant, 2021 · $8k
- NSNORTHSTAR SEARCH AND RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +2%
- FHFroedtert Hospital Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +172%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Center for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Top Dog Foundation 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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
115 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. 115 of the 167 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 UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISLANDS OF BRILLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds OSPREY VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATIONAL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Healing Hands of Joy ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dalton-Brand 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 Richard G Jacobus Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Pine School Inc — 0% of income from government
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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