· Private foundation
Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k185 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERRILL AREA UNITED WAY | $93,637 |
| NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $49,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $49,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $24,543 |
| UWM FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE AND WAUKESHA COUNTY INC | $9,512 |
| ALL-IN-MILWAUKEE | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND SERVICE | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CAPITAL REGION | $3,335 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $3,000 |
| ST MARCUS SCHOOL | $2,600 |
| UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY | $2,500 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
174 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 83 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- MAMERRILL AREA UNITED WAY INC4× · 2020–2024 · $442k · revenue +5% · 37% of their budget
- MUMarquette University5× · 2020–2024 · $395k · revenue +24%
- LPLIFE PROMOTIONS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $155k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $58k
- WEWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH - COMMISSION ON EVANGELISMone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
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.
Christian care communities enhances the journey of life for those we serve. recognizing the unique needs of each individual christian care offers an array of housing and care options including independent living. 24-hour skilled nursing…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Decatur cooperative ministry helps families facing homelessness settle into safe, stable homes and build healthy lives filled with peace, hope and opportunity.
Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center and the most unlike its peers is Heffernan Group 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% 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.
407 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. 407 of the 1,082 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MERRILL AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
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- Who funds UW WAUSAU CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION ↗
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- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD ↗
- Who funds MERRILL COMMUNITY HOMELESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Hmong American Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds PARKSIDE PRESCHOOL CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
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: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Dudley Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Macdonald Foundation · Youth Foundation 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 Church Mutual Insurance Company 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.
- Pines of Sarasota Inc — 18% of income from government
- Mercy House International Inc — 6% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hands in for Youth Inc — 0% 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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