· Private foundation
Wallace H Jerome Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| BARRON CHETEK YOUTH HOCKEY | $3,500 |
| BEAVER DAM LAKE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| BADGER BOYS STATE | $1,200 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| BARRON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| MISSOURI PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BENJAMIN'S HOUSE | $500 |
| AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY | $500 |
| SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CONSERVATION FEDERATION OF MISSOURI | $500 |
| 4-H | $500 |
| BARRON AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BARRON COUNTY | $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 (FY17–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- BABARRON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +1%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +46%
- MPMissouri Prairie Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- RCRED CEDAR CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $100k
- COCASA OF WESTERN WISCONSINone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- ESEMERGENCY SERVICES OF BARRON COUNTY INCone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
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…
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
Promote, represent & advocate for the cooperative way of doing business
The minnesota state fair foundation's mission is to preserve and improve the historic minnesota state fairgrounds and support state fair programs and projects in agriculture, arts & culture, education, the environment, and history.
The mission of the rocky mountain elk foundation (rmef) is to ensure the future of elk, other wildlife, their habitat and our hunting heritage. our mission includes four core programs; land protection and access, hunting heritage, habitat…
Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Margarets Project Santa 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 24 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
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 62 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 BARRON AREA COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BARRON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FEDERATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WESTERN WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOUSE EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARRON AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RICE LAKE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENRICHMENT THROUGH CULTURE ETC INC ↗
- Who funds BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE 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: Xcel Energy Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Brown Family Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Wallace H Jerome Foundation 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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