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1923 Fund at a glance

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1923 Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$12MHealth$3.0MEnvironment$2.2MArts & Culture$1.8MRecreation & Sports$1.2MPhilanthropy$631kSocial Science$475kYouth Development$435kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.2M
$125,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$1,634,826
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY$1,190,515
HSHS ST VINCENT HOSPITAL$500,000
NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC$500,000
PEACEFUL PATHS DOMESTIC ABUSE NETWORK$400,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY$200,000
ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST$200,000
TOWN OF GIBRALTAR$175,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$166,500
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$150,000
FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE$125,000
BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$100,000
UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY$100,000
PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE$83,333
Individual grant recipient$83,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $102k → 17%UNIV OF FLORIDA FDN WHITNEY LAB: $107k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 19%NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN LAND TRUST: $100k → 7%DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM: $212k → 8%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY: $200k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $488k → 10%CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $150k → 9%UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $137k → 9%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $249k → 17%OAK HALL SCHOOL: $522k → 19%LAKESHORE CAP: $200k → 8%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $167k → 17%OAK HALL SCHOOL: $520k → 19%DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM: $167k → 8%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $167k → 17%OAK HALL SCHOOL: $494k → 19%DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM: $166k → 8%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $124k → 17%OAK HALL SCHOOL: $477k → 19%CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK: $110k → 8%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $123k → 17%CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK: $100k → 8%DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM: $100k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY: $1.2M → 10%ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $500k → 19%STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL: $100k → 8%UNIV OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY FDN: $417k → 10%ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $332k → 19%UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY: $100k → 8%UW - GREEN BAY MAC 212: $385k → 10%ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INCORPORATED: $300k → 19%UW GREEN BAY FOUNDATION: $362k → 10%ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $200k → 19%U OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY FDN: $253k → 10%ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST: $200k → 19%BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE: $125k → 19%FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE: $105k → 19%FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE: $103k → 19%FLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE: $100k → 19%PEACEFUL PATHS DOMESTIC ABUSE NETWORK: $400k → 19%TOWN OF GIBRALTAR: $175k → 8%ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%ST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500k → 10%HSHS ST VINCENT HOSPITAL: $500k → 10%NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $500k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 20 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$20M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+2%

Still filing today

55%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $7.2M · revenue +62%
  • AC
    ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +520%
  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $831k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $450k
  • UG
    UW - GREEN BAY MAC 212
    one grant, 2020 · $385k
  • UO
    U OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY FDN
    one grant, 2023 · $253k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Landmark Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
2
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture
3
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
4
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
5
Natural Resources Foundation of

To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.

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6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
7
Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment
8
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment
9
Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Inc

To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.

Recreation & Sports
10
Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.

Environment
11
Conservation Minnesota

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.

Environment
12
Wisconsin's Green Fire Incorporated

Advance science-informed analysis and policy solutions that address wisconsin's greatest conservation challenges.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neville Public Museum Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAK HALL SCHOOL: $2,013,270 · OtherOAK HALL SCHOOLST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · OtherST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY: $1,190,515 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAYIndividual grant recipient: $1,092,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $1,074,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $829,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINENATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $800,000 · OtherNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INCHSHS ST VINCENT HOSPITAL: $500,000 · OtherFLORIDA SPRINGS INSTITUTE: $475,001 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $450,000 · Other+23 more: $2,946,121 · Other+23 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,241,966 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $830,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY F…+1 more: $120,000 · EducationALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $1,532,000 · EnvironmentALACHUA CO…CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC: $290,000 · EnvironmentCROSSROADS…BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $264,000 · EnvironmentBAIRD CREE…NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentDOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $645,200 · Arts & CultureTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $83,000 · Arts & CultureSTURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $295,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $204,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAIN CENTER OF GREEN BAY INC: $50,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$12,869,907Education$8,192,466Environment$2,186,000Arts & Culture$893,200Philanthropy$499,500Youth Development$55,000Health$50,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $7,241,966 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $1,532,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $830,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $800,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $645,200 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $295,500 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC: $290,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetBAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $264,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetLAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN: $250,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $204,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $83,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC: $55,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRAIN CENTER OF GREEN BAY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSTURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY: $2,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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 THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC ↗
  • Who funds BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION 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.

Greater Green Bay Com…Green Bay Packers Fou…Door County Community…Wisconsin Public Serv…George Kress Foundati…Community Foundation …Byron L Walter Family…Lutsey Family Foundat…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Bernard E and Alyce G…Ellsworth and Carla P…K C Stock Foundation …
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation IncWI29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · Lutsey Family Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bernard E and Alyce G Dahlin Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · K C Stock Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 1923 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 1923 Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Alachua Conservation Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to 1923 Fund?

Find your warmest path to 1923 Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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