· Private foundation
William J Cronin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PROJECT 1649 | $9,000 |
| GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER | $9,000 |
| HOSPICE CARE INC | $8,000 |
| UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION | $7,800 |
| CANCER COALITION OF ROCK COUNTY | $7,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE | $6,000 |
| GATHERING PLACE OF MILTON | $6,000 |
| JANESVILLE COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER | $6,000 |
| BLACKHAWK TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,200 |
| ST MARY'S CONGREGATION | $5,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William J Cronin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William J Cronin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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