How much did WILLIAM STARK JONES FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of WILLIAM STARK JONES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

memorycatholic

2019

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2020

stemfnd

2021

mothersfnd

2022

motherscatholic churchfndwest bend

2023

bluemothersfndwest bend

2024

beachbluefndwest bendcatholic

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k52 grants · $128k
$10k–50k10 grants · $112k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

EARLY MUSIC NOW$15,000
PLYMOUTH HARBOR FOUNDATION$13,000
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CTR$12,000
NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION$12,000
BOCA BLUE BENEVOLENT$10,000
ARIZONA AXEMEN MOTORCYCLE CLUB$10,000
DIABETES COALITION OF PALM BEACH$10,000
HIGHLAND BEACH POLICE AND FIRE$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF MILWAUKEE$10,000
THE SEEING EYE INC$10,000
WEST BEND SUNRISE ROTARY FND$8,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MILWAUKEE$7,500
JACKSON HOLE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$7,000
BALANCE INC$5,000
SECOND HEART HOMES INC$5,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $186k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.7M · 108 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

108 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108

Total granted

$1.7M

$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+60%

Still filing today

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

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EARLY MUSIC NOW
8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +14%
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY CTR
8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +113%
NEXT DOOR FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +16%

Funded once

CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -26%
SA
ST ANN CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $10k
SC
ST CLEMENT'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Radio Milwaukee Inc

Through music and stories created for a culturally open- minded community, radio milwaukee, inc. is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive, and engaged milwaukee.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee County Historical Society Inc

The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.

Arts & Culture

Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

Milwaukee Parks Foundation Inc

Engage our community in supporting milwaukee county parks to collectively steward a thriving park system.

Environment

Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc. is dedicated to promoting and providing research and education concerning the value of diversity in corporate governance and management and eliminating barriers to full inclusion of women in leadership positions.

Education

Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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Employ Milwaukee Inc

Build a strong workforce development system to ensure a skilled and productive workforce.

Employment

Revitalize Milwaukee Inc

Revitalize Milwaukee transforms communities by providing free, critical home repairs and comprehensive services to low-income, veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. see page 2

Housing & Shelter

Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of

Advocate for business in the metropolitan milwaukee area

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Humane Animal Welfare Society of

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Axemen Motorcycle Club 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/66

the rest of the field

11%

3,033/28,000

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.

05the grantee network

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/61

Grantees still filing

45/61

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,361,000Human Services$186,000Recreation & Sports$119,500Environment$90,000Crime & Legal$60,000Arts & Culture$51,500Community Improvement$42,000

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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI50.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Baird Foundation Inc · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Richard and Ethel Herzfeld · Otto Bremer Trust · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Gardner 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 organisation WILLIAM STARK JONES 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BAY VIEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 743129480 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BAY VIEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to William Stark Jones Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William Stark Jones Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WILLIAM STARK JONES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William Stark Jones Foundation?

More from the funding graph

WILLIAM STARK JONES FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

61 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to William Stark Jones Foundation?

More from the funding graph