· Private foundation
Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Service | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Sister Bay Lib Grove FFA | $5,000 |
| Christ Church | $5,000 |
| Families Helping Families Chicagaol | $5,000 |
| Renew Communities | $5,000 |
| Civic Leadership Foundation | $5,000 |
| Asian Youth Services | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Shepard of the Bay Lutheran Church | $2,000 |
| The Ability Experience | $1,000 |
| Music Men of Dubuque | $1,000 |
| Sunshine Resources of Door County | $1,000 |
| Leukemia Research Foundation | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- ZSZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER5× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +27%
- FSFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY4× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +4%
- CACOORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES4× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- SBSUE BALDWIN FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -15%
- TNTHE NORA PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -18%
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 mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
The mission of lakeshore is to enhance the ability of persons with mental and physical disabilities to live as independently as possible through acquisition of skills and utilization of services that promote each individual's self…
The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
The community foundation of the holland/zeeland area seeks to ensure that our community thrives today, tomorrow, and forever by building our community's endowment to support high impact charitable projects, helping donors achieve their…
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
To improve access to quality health care for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Door County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sister Bay Historical Society Inc. 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 30 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 ASIAN YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES CHICAGOLAND ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM MENS CLUB ↗
- Who funds LESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Highland Park Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SUE BALDWIN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LTD ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Kids Club ↗
- Who funds THE NORA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS RANK ↗
- Who funds EASTSHORE HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Door County Community Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Highland Park Community Foundation · Mills Family Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · YEA Highland Park Inc · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family 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 Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family 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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