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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.

$478k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MHealth$484kArts & Culture$276kHuman Services$156kEnvironment$101kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kRecreation & Sports$30kEducation$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Blossom IDD: $15k → 6%Golden Paws Assistance Dogs: $500 → 10%JOURNEY HOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%HEAR WISCONSIN: $50k → 17%Hear WI: $50k → 17%HEAR Wisconsin: $30k → 17%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Second Chance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 58%.

Second Chance Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$492k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$1.7M
$474k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-10%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HEAR Wisconsin Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +30%
  • NB
    NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +167%
  • ABCD INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +8%
  • CF
    Community Foundation of Hendersonville
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MAIN STREETS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $95k · revenue -80%
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
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
2
Landmark Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
3
Racine County Opportunity Center

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…

Human Services
4
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment
5
Wisconsin Association of Lakes Inc

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.

Environment
6
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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7
Gathering Waters Inc

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…

Environment
8
Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment
9
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

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…

Environment
10
Lime Connect Inc

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…

Employment
11
Friends of Deckers Creek Inc

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.

Environment
12
Waterstep Inc

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,…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $998,000 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUNDCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $310,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCCommunity Foundation of Hendersonville: $100,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of HendersonvilleFRIENDS OF MAIN STREETS INC: $95,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF MAIN STREETS INC+18 more: $228,455 · Other+18 moreJourney 21 Inc: $222,380 · Housing & ShelterJourney 21…HEAR Wisconsin Inc: $130,000 · Human ServicesJOURNEY HOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBlossom IDD Inc: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthABCD INC: $29,350 · HealthTHE DONNA LEXA COMMUNITY ART CENTERS INC: $20,600 · HealthCREATE WISCONSIN INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $80,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $76,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,731,455Housing & Shelter$222,380Human Services$170,500Health$149,950Arts & Culture$85,000Environment$80,500Philanthropy$76,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $310,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJourney 21 Inc: $222,380 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetHEAR Wisconsin Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $76,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCREATE WISCONSIN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetABCD INC: $29,350 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR RIGHTS OF CITIZENS WITH HANDICAPS: $26,155 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetJOURNEY HOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLACES OF LOVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $21,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DONNA LEXA COMMUNITY ART CENTERS INC: $20,600 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCYPRESS COVE LANDKEEPERS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLIFE NAVIGATORS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHANTOM LAKE YMCA CAMP INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF OCONOMOWOC PARKS & TRAILS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NAPLES PLAYERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN HERO OUTDOORS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF ROOKERY BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…Waukesha County Commu…Green Bay Packers Fou…Harri Hoffmann Family…United Way of Greater…STACKNER FAMILY FOUND…Baird Foundation IncCollier Community Fou…Herbert H Kohl Charit…The Richard M Schulze…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jerome J and Dorothy …
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI30.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Friends of Rookery Bay Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 35 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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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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