· Private foundation
Jek Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $427k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH | $150,000 |
| OSHKOSH COMMUNITY YMCA | $150,000 |
| CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES | $100,000 |
| OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $75,000 |
| GREATER OSHKOSH HEALTHY NEIGHBOORHOODS | $70,000 |
| OSHKOSH COMMUNITY YMCA | $50,000 |
| SOLUTIONS RECOVERY INC | $50,000 |
| HEADSUP FOX CITIES | $50,000 |
| PAINE ART CENTER AND GARDENS | $50,000 |
| SAMARITAN COUNSELING FOX VALLEY INC | $50,000 |
| GRAND OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PUBLIC TELEVISION WISCONSIN | $40,000 |
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, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- OCOshkosh Community YMCA7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +83%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +54%
- PAPAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $696k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- SRSolutions Recovery Clubone grant, 2020 · $128k
- OKOSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -34%
- UWUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +5%
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.
To support the mission and activities of the oshkosh area community foundation corporation.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
To provide leadership, direction, coordination, and services to advance economic development in the greater oshkosh area.
To be a proactive leader in helping shape and refine the vision of excellence of the university of wisconsin - oshkosh through: raising the awareness of the need for private support for educational priorities; building relationships to…
To provide leadership and to serve and represent our members so their businesses and our communities will prosper.
Stimulate development of the local economy, provide support to existing and prospective employers, serve as a professional resource to local units of government and promote tourism opportunities within oconto county wisconsin.
The purpose of neighborhood housing services of southeast wisconsin, inc. is to renew pride, restore confidence,promote reinvestment, and revitalize the nhs neighborhoods through the efforts of local residents acting in concert with…
To promote and advance educational, economic and workforce development through a partnership of business and educational representatives.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
To administer several programs to help guide families toward self-sufficiency and a more satisfying life. these programs include representative payee services and guardianship services.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Jasper Pickett Foundation Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 72 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
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 Oshkosh Community YMCA ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds PAINE ART CENTER & GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds GO-EDC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOVA COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DAY BY DAY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER OSHKOSH HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND OSHKOSH INC ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINNEBAGO AREA LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HEADSUP FOX CITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COVEY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Trio Young Scholars Inc ↗
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
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: Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Silver Star Brands Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area United Way Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · United Way Fox Cities 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 Jek 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.
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.