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B & D Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MANAWA REVITALIZATION COMMITTEE | $15,000 |
| LITTLE WOLF HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LIONS PRIDE ENDOWMENT FUND OF WI | $8,500 |
| LITTLE WOLF HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| STURM HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| MANAWA COMMUNITY LIVING CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MANAWA AREA FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| ST PAUL LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| WISCONSIN LIONS FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| ZION EV LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| THEDA CARE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S RESIDENCE INC | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 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 FY2025, 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
- WLWISCONSIN LIONS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +4%
- LPLions Pride Endowment Fund Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +1%
- SJST JOSEPH RESIDENCE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- EEEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +75%
- MAManawa Athletic Booster Club Incone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -89%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone 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 natural resource development association supports policies that lead to proper, necessary, and conscientious resource development and conservation. by engaging community leaders, laborers, manufacturers, and job creators in the…
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship
It is the mission of the organization to maintain, protect, and improve the quality of the lakes and connecting waterways of the eagle river chain of lakes in vilas county wisconsin.
Eagles Nest Projects Wisconsin is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to inspire and educate youth through hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs focused on aviation. The…
To promote the continued development of parks and recreation activites through the contributions of organizations or individuals from the community.
Provide affordable housing, support, and community to veterans throughout their lifespan.
Dedicated to working with land owners to protect conservation-worthy land and natural resources of southern wisconsin.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
To provide financial support from time to time to further certain of the exempt purposes of the wisconsin lions foundation, inc.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions Pride Endowment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manawa Area Veterans Freedom Park Inc. 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 33 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 WISCONSIN LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lions Pride Endowment Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Manawa Area Veterans Freedom Park Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WAUPACA COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOLA LIVING ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Manawa Athletic Booster Club Inc ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION OF ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization B & D 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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