· Private foundation
Black Spring 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $555k
- $250k+7 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dementia Innovations | $1,125,000 |
| Bernies Book Bank | $500,000 |
| Sailing Education Assoc Of Sheboygan I | $500,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Sheboygan County | $450,000 |
| Sheboygan County Food Bank | $400,000 |
| Humane Society of Sheboygan County | $395,000 |
| SecureFutures Foundation Inc | $250,000 |
| Sheboygan County Warming Center & Comm | $220,000 |
| HER Alliance Inc | $175,000 |
| Weill Center Foundation Inc | $100,000 |
| Sheboygan Public Education Foundation | $60,000 |
| Meals on Wheels of Sheboygan County | $45,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
The mission of the sheboygan county economic development corporation (scedc), a countywide private/public partnership, is to lead economic development efforts to improve the economic well-being and long-term prosperity of the businesses,…
Provide educational development programs in sheboygan county
Our mission is to provide efficient, progressive financial services and products to our owner-members in agreement with credit union philosophy
Promote yachting, boating and social activities of club members.
The mission of the sheboygan county economic development corporation foundation, a countywide private/public partnership, is to lead diversified economic & community development efforts in order to improve the long term prosperity of the…
Family service association of sheboygan, inc. is dedicated to helping individuals and families maintain and achieve financial stability and improve their quality of life. we accomplish this and enhance the community by providing education,…
Community youth boating education
A spiritually based organization of faith communities to educate and advocate for social justice, dignity, and to improve quality of life for all people by being a bridge between community needs and partner resources. scio engages with the…
The promotion, development and maintenance of the ellwood h. may environmental park and its programs. the environmental park trust of sheboygan county was created to provide funding for the ellwood h. may environmental park developed to be…
To provide for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the sherburne public library.
To provide support to cancer victims. this support is primarily provided in two ways: 1) distribution of financial "gestures" to assist with the financial burden of a cancer diagnosis and 2) offering of healthy and active-living activities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dementia Innovations Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BERNIE'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds SAILING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SHEBOYGAN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEILL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY 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: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Catharine B Stayer Family Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment 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 Black Spring 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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