Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Jensen Family 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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,202
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $104k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations The Jensen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 12 | $5k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $9k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $14k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $11k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $17k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $11k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $16k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $25k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generate Health Stl | $11,038 | 7 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of Cincinnati | $4,632 | 8 | 0% |
| Cise | $3,710 | 7 | 0% |
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $2,100 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Psoriasis Foundation | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wyoming School Foundation | $1,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Clean Lakes Alliance Inc | $1,065 | 9 | 0% |
| The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Loaves and Fishes | $1,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jensen Family 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: Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Hooper Corp Foundation · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Jensen Family Foundation
- How much does The Jensen Family Foundation give?
- The Jensen Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $4,717 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Jensen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (60%), Education (11%), Religion (8%).
- Who are The Jensen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Generate Health Stl ($11k), Zoological Society of Cincinnati ($5k), Cise ($4k).
- Does The Jensen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Jensen Family 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 The Jensen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc, Madison Community Foundation, Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Jensen Family Foundation based?
- The Jensen Family Foundation is based in WI.
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