· Private foundation
Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $131k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $894k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $880k
- $250k+1 grant · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNTY OF MARATHON | $334,000 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $150,000 |
| MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT DEPAUL CABRINI CONFERENCE | $100,000 |
| ROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC AKA MONK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN DBA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONS | $100,000 |
| CHILDCARING INC | $75,000 |
| CITY OF WAUSAU FIRE DEPARTMENT | $55,000 |
| WAUSAU CHILD CARE | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN DBA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONS | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $50,000 |
| VILLAGE OF SPENCER | $50,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES | $41,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WAUSAU | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $888k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k 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
- WYWOODSON YMCA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1.6M · revenue +93%
- TMTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $683k · revenue +582%
Funded once
- DEDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -97%
- HNHEALTHFIRST NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +2%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS FOR REFUGEES INCone grant, 2023 · $115k · revenue -7% · 72% of their budget
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 promote social welfare including but not limited to informing the public and policymakers on the importance of wisconsin's construction work to the state's economy, the vitality of its communities, and the lives of its citizens.
The mission of wisconsin center for nursing, inc. is to assure an adequate, well-prepared and diverse nurse workforce for the people of wisconsin. the work of the wisconsin center for nursing continues to be focused in five core nursing…
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…
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
The wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
99 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. 99 of the 224 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WOODSON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCARING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds Keep Area Teens Safe Inc ↗
- Who funds DC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Hmong American Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEVER FORGOTTEN HONOR FLIGHT 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Dudley Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · The Macdonald Foundation · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Lewitzke Foundation Inc
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 Ba & Esther Greenheck 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 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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