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Catherine E Apple & Myrl S Apple 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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
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.

Education$306kHealth$155kRecreation & Sports$106kFood & Nutrition$79kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$36kArts & Culture$32kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS$16,700
ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE OF NW WISCONSIN$10,000
COLLEGE READY$10,000
PESHTIGO YOUTH BASEBALL INC$10,000
THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY$5,000
GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDENS$2,000
JACK & ENGRID MENG HOSPICE RESIDENCE$2,000
JACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY$2,000
NEW COMMUNITY CLINIC$2,000
MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC$2,000
HAND N HAND OF NE WISCONSIN$1,000
MARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION$1,000
ST JOHN HOMELESS SHELTER$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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION: $1k → 12%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $2k → 10%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$700k · 30 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
7

Total granted

$700k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+63%

Still filing today

33%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • EE
    EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +162%
  • PP
    PAUL'S PANTRY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +50%
  • NC
    NEW COMMUNITY CLINIC LTD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CC
    CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • GB
    GREEN BAY POLICE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • TE
    TAKE EM OUTDOORS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +161%
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
New Community Shelter Foundation Inc

New community shelter foundation, inc. is organized and operated for charitable, educational, religious, and scientific purposes exclusively for the benefit and support of the greater green bay community foundation, inc.

Housing & Shelter
2
Guardianship Services Inc

Guardianship services, inc. (gsi) answers the call to protect tarrant county's vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect and exploitation with services ranging from guardianship to money management, victim advocacy and financial literacy…

Human Services
3
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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4
Wisconsin Family Ties Inc

Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…

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5
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
6
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…

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7
Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative

Common ground healthcare cooperative ("cghc") is a non-profit member-governed health insurance company dedicated to providing affordable, innovative health insurance solutions to small businesses, non-profits, and individuals in wisconsin.

Health
8
The Guidance Center

Nuture development. foster resilience. cultivate well-being.

Health
9
Kenosha Community Foundation

We lead, serve and collaborate with donors to create enduring philanthropy.

Philanthropy
10
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
11
Child Care Centers of Marshfield Inc

The organization's primary mission is to provide child care and a child and adult care food program for the city of marshfield and the surrounding communities.

Human Services
12
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Take Em Outdoors 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

20 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. 20 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST HIGH SCHOOL: $84,786 · OtherWEST HIGH SCHOOLQ&A FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherQ&A FOUNDATIONWEST HIGH SCHOOL BASIC NEEDS FUND: $74,000 · OtherWEST HIGH SCHOOL BASIC NEEDS FUNDNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $45,000 · OtherNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGENWTC CATHERINE E & MYRL S APPLE FAMILY ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25,000 · OtherNEW COMMUNITY CLINIC LTD: $24,000 · OtherPESHTIGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $23,000 · OtherWEST HIGH SCHOOL NWTC SCHOLARSHIP: $20,000 · OtherST PATRICK FOOD PANTRY: $19,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY: $18,500 · Other+23 more: $131,041 · Other+23 moreEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY: $94,100 · HealthEXCEPTIONAL EQ…JACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER INC: $8,673 · HealthJACKIE NITSCHK…GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 · PhilanthropyPESHTIGO YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $40,267 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGEREADY INC: $10,000 · EducationMY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesMARINETTE COUNTY GROUP HOME ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $13,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$539,327Health$102,773Philanthropy$47,500Food & Nutrition$40,267Education$30,000Human Services$19,000Housing & Shelter$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY: $94,100 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetQ&A FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $40,267 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY CLINIC LTD: $24,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $18,000 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGEREADY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER INC: $8,673 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBEAT CANCER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC: $7,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE EM OUTDOORS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Q&A FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW COMMUNITY CLINIC LTD ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGEREADY INC ↗
  • Who funds PESHTIGO YOUTH BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAT CANCER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds TAKE EM OUTDOORS INC ↗

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.

George Kress Foundation IncWI36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Kress Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc

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 Catherine E Apple & Myrl S Apple Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Catherine E Apple & Myrl S Apple Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 44 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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