· Private foundation
William J Cronin 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PATRICK'S CONGREGATION | $15,600 |
| HEALTHNET OF JANESVILLE | $11,000 |
| ECHO | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION | $9,500 |
| GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER | $9,000 |
| PROJECT 1649 | $9,000 |
| HOSPICE CARE INC | $8,000 |
| UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION | $7,800 |
| CANCER COALITION OF ROCK COUNTY | $7,000 |
| GATHERING PLACE OF MILTON | $6,000 |
| JANESVILLE COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER | $6,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE | $6,000 |
| BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| ST JOHN VIANNEY CONGREGATION | $5,200 |
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 (FY19–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- P1PROJECT 1649 INC7× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +31%
- ECEVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue +11%
- UWUNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
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 inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The st. louis jewish community center enriches lives, builds community, promotes inclusivity and creates meaningful jewish experiences.
Provides for personal enrichment, cultural programming, education support and life long learning for the citizens of the community and beyond.
Servie the youth of jefferson and cocke county through summer and after school programming to inspire and enable them to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
The organization promotes the health, social, educational, vocational, and character development of young people by providing community services and youth activities throughout the greater chicopee area.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
Mission and significant activities to promote exclusively the social welfare of boys and girls in indiana; to provide guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, character, and cultural development of boys and…
Operation of a residential camp for needy youngsters on a no charge basis
Through both traditional materials and emerging technologies, johnson city public library offers a mulititude of learning opportunities and entertainment choices in a dynamic center for the community.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as caring, productive and responsible citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Blackhawk Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Gathering Place of Milton Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 33 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 PROJECT 1649 INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Gathering Place of Milton Inc ↗
- Who funds JANESVILLE COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JANESVILLE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN - BADGERLAND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BELOIT JANESVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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: Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Kennedy Family Foundation Inc · United Way Blackhawk Region Inc · Jpc Foundation · Seneca Foods Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Janesville Foundation Inc · Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc · Hendricks Family 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 William J Cronin 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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