Florida · Private foundation
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.
- $478k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Second Chance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $478k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $278k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $355k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $324k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $528k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $235k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journey 21 Inc | $222,380 | 3 | 2% |
| HEAR Wisconsin Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Friends of Main Streets Inc | $95,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Naples Botanical Garden Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc | $76,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Create Wisconsin Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Abcd Inc | $29,350 | 3 | 1% |
| Association for Rights of Citizens With Handicaps | $26,155 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Second Chance Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Second Chance Foundation
- How much does Second Chance Foundation give?
- Second Chance Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $477,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Second Chance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Second Chance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Journey 21 Inc ($222k), HEAR Wisconsin Inc ($130k), Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($100k).
- Does Second Chance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Second Chance Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Second Chance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Waukesha County Community Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation.
- Where is Second Chance Foundation based?
- Second Chance Foundation is based in FL.
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