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The Jim & Jennifer Rooney Family Foundation Inc

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.

$579k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE JIM & JENNIFER ROONEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$770k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAVEN CHRISTIAN CHURCH$500,000
EAU CLAIRE SOBER LIVING$25,000
REGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$15,000
CVTC FOUNDATION$10,000
YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
KINGDOM WORKERS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC$2,000
FRIENDS NETWORK$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
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 (FY19–23, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SKYS THE LIMIT FUND: $10k → 8%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND: $80k → 13%SKYS THE LIMIT FUND: $5k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MT
MN
WI
CA
CO
KY
VA
GA
FL

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 19 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +145% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
24

Total granted

$1.3M
$318k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+32%

Still filing today

32%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CV
    CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +173%
  • RC
    REGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +108%
  • ST
    SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND
    2× · 2019–2020 · $15k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • PL
    PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $141k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue -2%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $28k

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
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
2
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

3
Community Foundation of Chippewa Co

To enable donors to achieve their philanthropic goals, to meet changing community needs, thereby benefiting the communities, people and other nonprofit organizations of chippewa county.

Philanthropy
4
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…

Philanthropy
5
St Luke Community Hospital

The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…

Health
6
Literacy Chippewa Valley

Provide literacy programs to help adults & their families reach their goals

Education
7
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

8
Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District Foundation Inc

To receive and administer funds for educational and charitable purposes.

9
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

10
Chippewa Valley Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

To provide a meaningful and rewarding scouting experience to the youth of the chippewa valley council, thereby, developing future leaders and promoting good citizenship.

11
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
12
Southeastern Wisconsin Youth for Christ Inc

Southeastern wisconsin youth for christ works towards reaching young people everywhere, working together with the local church and other likeminded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle,…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chippewa Falls Little League 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

13 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. 13 of the 48 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAVEN CHRISTIAN CHURCH INC — $1,050,000 · OtherHAVEN CHRISTIAN CHURCH INCPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $141,250 · OtherPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHREGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · Other+37 more — $155,700 · Other+37 moreCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $15,000 · Human ServicesYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyEAU CLAIRE SOBER LIVING INC — $25,000 · HealthAvow Inc — $1,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC — $10,000 · Religion
Other$1,411,950Education$135,000Human Services$95,000Philanthropy$50,000Health$26,000Youth Development$12,000Religion$10,000

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 budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $135,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC — $80,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetREGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEAU CLAIRE SOBER LIVING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND — $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIPE LINE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHIPPEWA FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS NETWORK — $1,000 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.

  • Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC
  • Who funds REGIS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds EAU CLAIRE SOBER LIVING INC
  • Who funds SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE GREATER CHIPPEWA VALLEY INC
  • Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC
  • Who funds PIPE LINE CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY THEATRE GUILD INC
  • Who funds Avow 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.

Eau Claire Community FoundationWI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eau Claire Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Jim & Jennifer Rooney Family 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 · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report 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 The Jim & Jennifer Rooney Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Jim & Jennifer Rooney Family 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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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