· Private foundation
Baker Family 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 $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $905k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY | $905,200 |
| FOND DU LAC FAMILY YMCA | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC | $15,000 |
| SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS PARISH & SCHOOL | $9,500 |
| HOLY FAMILY PARISH | $8,000 |
| AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $7,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION LTD | $5,000 |
| HOLY LAND FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| SOLUTIONS CENTER | $2,500 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +144%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +30%
- FOFRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- FAFOREST ATHLETIC CLUB NEWCORP INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -72%
- COCONGREGATION OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDone grant, 2019 · $18k
- NCNFDL CHARTER SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
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 compassionate care that brings hope, health and wholeness to all we serve. the organization provides skilled nursing care, independent living and assisted living facilities. st. francis home is the heart of its care campus.
The mission of agnesian healthcare is to provide compassionate care that brings hope, health and wholeness to those we serve by honoring the sacredness and dignity of all persons at every stage of life. we are rooted in the healing…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Religious Programming
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Bell tower residence is a nonprofit, faith-based assisted living community that promotes the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of each resident in a safe, caring environment. for over 100 years the sisters of mercy of the holy…
We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.
Rooted in our catholic tradition and commitment to christian love and community, milwaukee catholic home, inc. (mch) provides continuing care services for older adults.
Organization's purpose and nature of activities: young men's christian association of stevens point, wisconsin area, inc. (ymca) strives to be the identified leader in providing programs and services that enrich the quality of life for the…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Through excellence in healthcare and compassionate service, we care for our community.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
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 Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SARNELLI HOUSE UA ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA CHRISTIAN RETREAT INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST ATHLETIC CLUB NEWCORP INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH INTERGENERATIONAL COALITION LTD ↗
- Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Holyland Food Pantry 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: Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Michels Family Foundation · Grande Foundation · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Korb Family Foundation Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Baker 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.