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Second Chance Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fidelity Donor Advised Fund | $200,000 |
| Journey 21 | $120,000 |
| Lee Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Hear WI | $50,000 |
| Create Wisconsin | $25,000 |
| Blossom IDD | $15,000 |
| After Breast Cancer Diagnosis Inc | $10,000 |
| Laces of Love | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY20–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Second Chance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 58% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
HEAR Wisconsin Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +20%- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +167%
ABCD INC3× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +44%
Funded once
ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +8%- CFCommunity Foundation of Hendersonvilleone grant, 2024 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF MAIN STREETS INCone grant, 2021 · $95k · revenue -80%
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.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Our focus is on making shortterm investments which will significantly improve the longterm wellbeing of our clients. we will measure our performance against these standards by continuously communicating with our clients, and will take…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Gathering waters (wisconsin's alliance for land trusts) strengthens land trusts to protect wisconsin's special places and grow healthy, vibrant communities. the stronger the alliance between gathering waters' staff and board members, land…
Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
Lime connect is leading the way as the premier resource for top talent in the disability space by attracting, preparing and connecting highly accomplished individuals, including veterans, with disabilities for careers with the world's…
The mission of friends of deckers creek is to improve the natural qualities of, increase public concern for, and promote the enjoyment of the deckers creek watershed.
Waterstep focuses on providing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities in need around the world. its mission is rooted in the belief that safe water is a basic human right and a critical foundation for health,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oasis Project Incorporated. 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 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 35 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 COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds HEAR Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MAIN STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ABCD INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR RIGHTS OF CITIZENS WITH HANDICAPS ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DONNA LEXA COMMUNITY ART CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRESS COVE LANDKEEPERS INC ↗
- Who funds Blossom IDD Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE NAVIGATORS INC ↗
- Who funds PHANTOM LAKE YMCA CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAPLES PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OCONOMOWOC PARKS & TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HERO OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS PROJECT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROOKERY BAY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY GREEN TEAM 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI · Baird Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus
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 Second Chance 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Friends of Rookery Bay 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.