· Private foundation
Apple Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $20,000 |
| MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BLUE LOTUS FARM & RETREAT CENTER | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 91% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +54%
- MHMILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +116%
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- MSMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +32%
- CMCHARLES M BOESEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
- IOINTERFAITH OLDER ADULT PROGRAMS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
The mission of the michigan state university college of law is to provide a rigorous educational program which prepares a diverse community of students to be national and international leaders in private legal practice, business and…
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The primary purpose of the medical center is to aid and support the development and provision of health services in wisconsin by assisting its members to develop and operate programs of education, research, and patient care. the medical…
The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.
Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…
Wisconsin medical cu is a not for profit, member owned organization dedicated to meet the members needs by providing sound financial services including competitive rates, information and services while maintaining financial stability of…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To be a great catholic university dedicated to excellence in learning, achieved by teaching, research, & scholarly activities in franciscan & liberal arts tradition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HOMELESS VETERANS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLUE LOTUS FARM & RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RED ARROW CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.
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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 Apple Family Foundation Inc 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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