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The Jobs First Coalition Inc

The jobs first coalition (jfc) works to make the creation and retention of family-supporting jobs the top priority of policymakers and community leaders in wisconsin.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$320,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,885,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Jobs First Coalition Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$3.4M40%
FY20232$179k0%
FY20226$1.8M0%
FY20212$23k50%
FY20207$1.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Public Benefit$4.3MEmployment$2.8M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jobs First Coalition Political Fund$3,624,0004n/a
Midwest Growth Inc$777,500331%
Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc$665,000116%
American Federation for Children Inc$660,00024%
American Majority Action$641,000316%
Wisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc$350,000214%
Wisconsin Principles Inc$242,00019%
Wisconsin Sporting Alliance Advocacy Inc$66,0003n/a
Wisconsin Right to Life Inc$35,00027%
Leaders for a Better Community Inc$25,000110%

Where it is load-bearing

The Jobs First Coalition Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMidwest Growth Inc: $777,500 over 3y, 31% of budgetWmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc: $665,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetAmerican Federation for Children Inc: $660,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetAmerican Majority Action: $641,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetWisconsin Alliance for Reform Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWisconsin Principles Inc: $242,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetWisconsin Right to Life Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetLeaders for a Better Community Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Wisconsin Bankers Ass…
Wisconsin Bankers AssociationWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Jobs First Coalition Inc

How much does The Jobs First Coalition Inc give?
The Jobs First Coalition Inc reported 5 grants totaling $3,354,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Jobs First Coalition Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (60%), Employment (40%).
Who are The Jobs First Coalition Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Jobs First Coalition Political Fund ($3.6M), Midwest Growth Inc ($778k), Wmc Issues Mobilization Council Inc ($665k).
Does The Jobs First Coalition Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Jobs First Coalition Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wisconsin Bankers Association.
Where is The Jobs First Coalition Inc based?
The Jobs First Coalition Inc is based in WI.

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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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