· Private foundation
Susan and Leander Jennings Foundati
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k65 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST | $21,550 |
| UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $13,500 |
| JOHNS ISLAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $6,350 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATER | $5,000 |
| ST EUGENE CHURCH | $4,400 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER | $3,600 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ART FUND | $3,000 |
| JOHNS ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAG | $2,800 |
| DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH | $2,500 |
| FOOD PANTRY OF IRC | $2,250 |
| HOLY CROSS CHURCH | $2,250 |
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 (FY17–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- IRINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +83%
- TJTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +235%
- UWUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- JIJOHNS ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGone grant, 2021 · $3k
- KOKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +10%
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.
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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…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. 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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 250 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE 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 · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Telly Foundation Ltd · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Community Foundation Inc · Zurn Foundation Inc (Fka Rexnord Foundation Inc) · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family 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 Susan and Leander Jennings Foundati 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Guardians for New Futures Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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.