How much did CHERNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of CHERNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

automobilelaweducationeconomiccarepolice

2020

districtbuildingcircuscarechildren

2021

hospiceeducationalperelearningstadiumsheltereconomic

2022

studentsknowledgecrimeeducationobjectivessocialyoung

2023

catholicrelief poorpoor distressedgracepledgeteamsobjectives

2024

pledgecircusbaseballteamssheltercancerchildren

2025

hockeylawrugbycircuscareathleticcancer

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k34 grants · $49k
$10k–50k4 grants · $43k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$281k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,500
UW GREEN BAY FOUNDATION$10,500
ASPIRO$10,404
YMCA$10,000
PREBLE HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
NE WI RUGBY FOUNDATION$5,000
YWCA$5,000
CONGREGATION CNESSES ISRAEL TEMPLE$5,000
ASHWAUBENON YOUTH BASEBALL INC$3,000
UNITED WAY$2,814
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$2,500
GRACE - GREEN BAY AREA CATHOLIC EDUCATION$2,000
THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000
DOWNTOWN GB CHARITIES INC$1,500
CEREBRAL PALSEY INC$1,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — 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 6% of CHERNICK 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. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

CHERNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.3% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$344k · 46 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$344k

$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+51%

Still filing today

30%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TB
THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +118%
A
ASPIRO
5× · 2019–2024 · $24k · revenue +22%
GB
GREEN BAY-PREBLE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +76%

Funded once

GB
GREEN BAY POLICE DEPARTMENT
one grant, 2018 · $5k
TF
THE FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN SINGERS INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -74%
NR
NEW RUGBY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

Green Bay Boy Choir and Girl Choir Inc

To provide quality musical instruction for youth ages 7-18.

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Green Bay Botanical Garden Inc

Green bay botanical garden connects people with plants by providing year-round educational and recreational experiences for everyone in an environment that engages, inspires and refreshes.

Environment

ThedaCare Regional Medical Center - Appleton Inc

Improving the health of our community.

Health

The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education

Aspirus Wausau Hospital Inc

We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.

Health

Bay Clinic Inc

Community - directed healthcare organization that provides quality primary and preventive care.

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Wisconsin Lutheran College Inc

Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.

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Bellin Health Systems Inc

To operate for the benefit of, support, promote, advance and strengthen nonprofit corporations engaged in the care of the sick, in the promotion of wellness and in charitable fund raising in and around northeastern wisconsin and the upper…

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Gundersen Lutheran Health System Inc

To support gundersen lutheran medical center, inc. and gundersen clinic, ltd. and/or their affiliates' programs of health care, medical education, medical research and community health promotion activities within the meaning of sec…

Health

Ssm Health Care of Wisconsin Inc

Part of an integrated network providing health care in south central wisconsin operating three hospitals and two skilled nursing facilities.

Health

St Mary's Hospital Medical Center of Green Bay Inc - Hospital Sisters

To reveal and embody christ's healing love for all people through our high quality franciscan health care ministry.

Health

Bellin Memorial Hospital Inc

Bellin memorial hospital, inc. (bmh) provides health care services and other financial support through various programs that are designed, among other matters, to enhance the health of the community and improve the health of low-income…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community and the most unlike its peers is St Norbert College Inc. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

901/10,029

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.

06the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/31

Grantees still filing

22/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$360,006Education$24,623Philanthropy$13,166Recreation & Sports$12,600Arts & Culture$12,500Youth Development$11,150Employment$11,000

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.

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.

George Kress Foundation IncWI33.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George Kress Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Cornerstone Foundation Of · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Cloud Family Foundation Inc · Michael & Leanne Haddad · Bernard E and Alyce G Dahlin Foundation · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Richard J Resch Foundation Ltd · Catherine E Apple & Myrl S Apple

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 organisation CHERNICK 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GREEN BAY-PREBLE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~114 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +76% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 263691454 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GREEN BAY-PREBLE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 114 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chernick Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Chernick Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHERNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chernick Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

CHERNICK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chernick Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph