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St Joseph Foundation Inc

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.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Religion$182kEducation$60kHuman Services$20kHealth$15kInternational$13kCivil Rights$10kYouth Development$3k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY$100,000
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF MILWAUKEE$20,000
MARY QUEEN OF HEAVEN$15,000
UWM NEWMAN CENTER$12,000
RELEVANT RADIO$10,000
WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE$10,000
THOMAS MORE SOCIETY$10,000
LOVE ONE ANOTHER$10,000
HOLY FAMILY PARISH SCHOOL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA$7,000
OUTREACH FOR WORLD HOPE$6,500
NATIONAL SHRINE OF OUR LADY CHAMPIO$5,000
THE CULTURE PROJECT$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%WOMEN'S CARE CENTER OF MILWAUKEE: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$207k · 6 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$207k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalCrime & LegalOther

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

  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $112k
  • MQ
    MARY QUEEN OF HEAVEN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k
  • IH
    IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue -31%

Funded once

  • Journey 21 Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • YW
    YOUTH WITH A MISSION - MADISON INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
3
Ave Maria Communications

Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.

Religion
4
Midwest University

Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…

Education
5
Life Matters Worldwide

Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.

Civil Rights
6
Wichita Adore Ministries

Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.

Religion
7
Chesterton Academy of St Philip Neri

Inspired by Saint Pope John Paul II, we take as our motto Cultura Vitae, the culture of life, as our students triumph over the materialism and despair that pervades our culture in order to have life and have it abundantly. We do this with…

Education
8
Wisconsin Independent Christian School Inc

Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.

Education
9
Theresians International Inc

Theresians International, Inc. is a global ministry founded in the Catholic tradition. It establishes small communities worldwide for women to further their spiritual and educational development.

10
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
11
Vocation Ministry

Vocation Ministry's mission is to equip the Church once again to awaken the call of a vocation within the human heart by creating an environment that encourages men and women to say "Yes" to God's call in their lives to the priesthood,…

Education
12
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immaculate Heart Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Journey 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
0/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY — $112,000 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARYMARY QUEEN OF HEAVEN — $25,000 · OtherMARY QUEEN OF HEAVENUWM NEWMAN CENTER — $12,000 · OtherUWM NEWMAN CENTERLOVE ONE ANOTHER TRUST — $10,000 · OtherLOVE ONE ANOTHER TRUSTHOLY FAMILY PARISH — $10,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILY PARISH+1 more — $5,000 · OtherChesterton Academy of Milw Inc — $20,000 · EducationChesterton Aca…UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC — $17,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC — $20,000 · ReligionIMMACULATE …YOUTH WITH A MISSION - MADISON INC — $10,000 · ReligionYOUTH WITH …Womens Care Center of Milwaukee Corp — $20,000 · Human ServicesJourney 21 Inc — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterOUTREACH FOR WORLD HOPE INC — $12,500 · InternationalTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $10,000 · Crime & LegalThe Culture Project International — $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$174,000Education$37,500Religion$30,000Human Services$20,000Housing & Shelter$15,000International$12,500Crime & Legal$10,000Youth Development$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChesterton Academy of Milw Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWomens Care Center of Milwaukee Corp — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJourney 21 Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUTREACH FOR WORLD HOPE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Culture Project International — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Renaissance Charitable Foundation IncIN14× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · American Endowment Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 St Joseph 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to St Joseph Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to St Joseph Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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