· Private foundation
Catharine B Stayer Family Foundation Inc
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
- $10k–50k12 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKKO BILLI SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| LAKELAND UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| CAMP EVERGREEN | $50,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC | $35,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY YMCA | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| BOSELLI FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $15,000 |
| RACINE LITERACY COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC | $10,000 |
| HOMELESS LEADERSHIP ASSISTANCE | $10,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($3.5M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($397k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($397k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Catharine B Stayer Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- SPSHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $420k · revenue +176%
CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue +22%
RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $215k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- SASHEBOYGAN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $106k
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +94%- NFNOURISH FARMS INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -23%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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.
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- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUNNING REBELS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
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- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
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- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC ↗
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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.
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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 Catharine B Stayer 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
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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