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Vjs Construction Services Community Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD | $10,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE | $10,000 |
| WOMENS CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILW & WAUK COUNTY | $3,000 |
| WAUWATOSA WEST HS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND | $1,000 |
| TRINITY ACADEMY INC | $1,000 |
| JOURNEY HOUSE INC | $500 |
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 (FY19–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
HMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD2× · 2020–2023 · $21k · revenue +51%
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $18k · revenue +301%- CUCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +4%
Funded once
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -22%
WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +25%
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.
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To raise scholarship money for students and raise the awareness of the campus and all of the activities on campus
The mission of wausau child care inc. is to strengthen child development, families and the community by providing access to safe, high quality early learning for children.
Woodlands school, inc. is a public charter non-profit school authorized through the univerity of wisconsin-milwaukee using a character-based education approach to prepare children for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
Our mission is to seed a new model of public education that ensures young children are on track to succeed in a college or career preparatory program from birth through high school graduation.
Valley christian school pursues educational excellence through christ centered programs to produce servant leaders.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trinity Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 41 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 HMONG AMERICAN PEACE ACADEMY LTD ↗
- Who funds ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WELLPOINT CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds GALS ON THE GO PROJECT INCORPORATED DBA THRIVE TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHNS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENOMONEE FALLS SCHOLARSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WAUWATOSA INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE CATHOLIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF BASIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY WORLD LTD ↗
- Who funds Journey 21 Inc ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL COMMUNITY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds WELLPOINT CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AGC CHARITIES 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 · Baird Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson 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 Vjs Construction Services Community 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.
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