· Private foundation
Charles 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF BAY BEACH | $200,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $100,000 |
| GRACE - GREEN BAY AREA CATHOLIC EDUCATION | $80,000 |
| GREEN BAY PREBLE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| RAWHIDE BOYS RANCH | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| STELLA MARIS FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| YWCA | $15,000 |
| FAMILIES IN TRANSITION SUPPORT NETWORK INC | $11,800 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF SOUTHEASTERN WI | $10,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY FOSTER CARE | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY INC | $7,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER GREEN BAY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of Charles 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.
45 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- GBGREEN BAY PREBLE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $257k · revenue +74% · 61% of their budget
- RIRAWHIDE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +31%
- EEENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- BCBROWN COUNTY WINEW ZOOone grant, 2020 · $200k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +180%
- PDPierce Downer Elementary PTAone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -59%
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.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
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.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stella Maris Foundation. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 67 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY PREBLE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA MARIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC ↗
- Who funds BAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Pierce Downer Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF BROWN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES-IN-TRANSITION SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE MARK DYSLEXIA CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY ORAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIP 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltd
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 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.
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.