· Private foundation
Charles David Ashley Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $10k–50k5 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $950k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC | $150,000 |
| UW SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE CO UW FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC | $100,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF WESTERN WAUKESHA COUNTY | $75,000 |
| MILWAUKEE PBS | $50,000 |
| LIFESTRIDERS | $50,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTER | $50,000 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $50,000 |
| ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC | $33,195 |
| UNITED PROFESSIONAL HORSEMAN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC | $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 human-services grants (FY17–18, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $728k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI2× · 2017–2018 · $111k · revenue +70%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $111k · revenue +70%- LILIFESTRIDERS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $61k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- KMKETTLE MORAINE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TUTEAM UP WITH FAMILIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +119%
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
Our mission is to empower WI Habitat for Humanity affiliates to create one voice that advocates and influences affordable home ownership.
The clinic's mission is to support the health care of uninsured and low-income residents of waukesha county. the clinic provides access to free or discounted services and medications.
Build/remodel homes sold at favorable terms to qualified low-income individuals. also, to operate two retail restore outlets to sell donated building materials.
Healthy wisconsin alliance, inc. was created to promote the social welfare of the citizens of wisconsin including developing, defining, and encouraging distribution of information about wisconsin's health care climate and the importance of…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. milwaukee habitat for humanity adheres to a…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
The Humane Society of Waupaca County (HSWC) provides the following services for the citizens of Waupaca County and the surrounding area. HSWC provides shelter, veterinary care, spaying and neutering and adoption services for homeless pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elmbrook Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTRIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ERAS SENIOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PROFESSIONAL HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOOVED ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds ELMBROOK HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM UP WITH FAMILIES 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: Waukesha County Community Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Waukesha Rotary Club Charitable Fund Inc · James & Leigh Peterson Family Foundation · Emil Ewald Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Charles David Ashley 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.