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Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$81k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$152kYouth Development$56kCrime & Legal$54kPublic Benefit$43kHousing & Shelter$38kEducation$33kHealth$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$889k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Family Service$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Sister Bay Lib Grove FFA$5,000
Families Helping Families Chicagaol$5,000
Christ Church$5,000
Renew Communities$5,000
Civic Leadership Foundation$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Asian Youth Services$2,500
Shepard of the Bay Lutheran Church$2,000
Music Men of Dubuque$1,000
The Ability Experience$1,000
Leukemia Research Foundation$1,000
Sunshine Resources of Door County$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CARPLS: $3k → 14%CARPLS: $3k → 14%CARPLS: $3k → 14%CARPLS: $1k → 14%Families Helping Families Chicagaol: $5k → 8%Northern Door Children's Center: $500 → 8%Families Helping Families Chicagaol: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
NJ
CA
VA
TN
NC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$407k · 27 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
14

Total granted

$407k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

63%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ZS
    ZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER
    5× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +27%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY
    4× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +4%
  • CA
    COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES
    4× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • SB
    SUE BALDWIN FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -15%
  • KR
    KIDS RANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +54%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Help of Door County Inc

The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.

Health
2
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc

Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.

Health
3
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
4
Cornerhouse

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Lakeshore Community Services Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
7
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

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…

Health
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

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.

Human Services
9
Great Lakes Community Action Partnership

The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

Human Services
10
The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc

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…

Philanthropy
11
League of California Community Foundations

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…

Philanthropy
12
Lake Superior Community Health Center

To improve access to quality health care for all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Door County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/30
Grantees still filing
18/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Family Services of Northeast Wiscon: $77,500 · OtherFamily Services of Northeast WisconRenew Communities: $35,000 · OtherRenew CommunitiesFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTY: $32,500 · OtherFAMILY SERVICE OF LAKE COUNTYIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $13,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNeighbor to Neighbor-Door: $13,500 · OtherNeighbor to Neighbor-DoorSister Bay Lib Grove FFA: $13,500 · OtherSister Bay Lib Grove FFA+21 more: $32,285 · Other+21 moreASIAN YOUTH SERVICES: $51,500 · Youth DevelopmentASIAN YOUTH SE…+2 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $43,250 · EducationCIVIC LEADERS…EPHRAIM MENS CLUB: $5,400 · EducationEPHRAIM MENS …COLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $2,000 · EducationZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER: $45,500 · Crime & LegalZACHARIAS S…COORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $8,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES CHICAGOLAND: $7,700 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 · HealthSUE BALDWIN FUND INC: $2,500 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthAmerican Liver Foundation: $1,000 · HealthHighland Park Community Foundation: $3,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CANCER: $1,500 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$248,185Youth Development$53,500Education$50,650Crime & Legal$45,500Human Services$16,700Health$10,500Philanthropy$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASIAN YOUTH SERVICES: $51,500 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetZACHARIAS SEXUAL ABUSE CENTER: $45,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCIVIC LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $43,250 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCOORDINATED ADVICE & REFERRAL PROGRAM FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES CHICAGOLAND: $7,700 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetEPHRAIM MENS CLUB: $5,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLESTER AND ROSALIE ANIXTER CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Community Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSUE BALDWIN FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE COUNTY CRISIS CENTER: $2,085 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE BOUND OPPORTUNITIES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LTD: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS RANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCrossroads Kids Club: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSHORE HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE CROWNS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTER BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Door County Community…AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…Highland Park Communi…Mills Family Charitab…Jewish Federation of …YEA Highland Park IncFirst Bank Chicago Fo…Katten Muchin Rosenma…Circle of Service Fou…Baxter International …The Richard M Schulze…
Door County Community Foundation IncWI19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Brock and Kristen LaMarca Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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