· Private foundation
A Sturm & Sons Foundation Inc Paul J Sturm
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 $10k24 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE WOLF HIGH SCHOOL | $19,500 |
| MCHS FOUNDATION | $16,500 |
| LIONS PRIDE ENDOWMENT FUND | $14,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,500 |
| WAUPACA COUNTY 4-H CLUBS | $7,200 |
| MANAWA AREA FOOD PANTRY | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CAP SERVICES | $5,000 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| STURM MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| THEDACARE MEDICAL CENTER NEW LONDON | $3,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TMThedaCare Medical Center - Waupaca Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +118%
- TMThedaCare Medical Center - New London Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue +102%
- WCWAUPACA COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- LWLIVING WORD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $21k
- LSLWHS Scholarship Fundone grant, 2021 · $20k
- MFMCHS Foundationone grant, 2021 · $17k
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 provide the highest quality health care, delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, and accessible to all members of the community.
To provide the highest quality health care, delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, and accessible to all members of the community.
To provide the highest quality health care, delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, and accessible to all members ofthe community.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
To provide the highest quality health care, delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, and accessible to all members of the community.
To provide the highest quality health care, delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective ways, and accessible to all members of the community.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Continously improving the health of our community.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Healthcare is a vital component of a community's quality of life. prairie lakes healthcare foundation exists to raise funds with which to support and advance the health services available to the watertown area through prairie lakes…
Together, we will inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating.
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is ThedaCare Medical Center - Waupaca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Acts 18 Ministry Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 52 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.
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.
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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 A Sturm & Sons Foundation Inc Paul J Sturm 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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