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Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$464k
Granted FY2025still arriving
256
Grants FY2025still arriving
37
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$966kPhilanthropy$596kReligion$425kYouth Development$248kFood & Nutrition$206kHuman Services$193kHealth$149kCommunity Improvement$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 256 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k244 grants · $176k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $138k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$500
Median grant
37
States reached
$172k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERRILL AREA UNITED WAY$99,967
NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL MILWAUKEE$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA$20,000
UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY$12,812
UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC$10,096
RIVER FOOD PANTRY$10,000
BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG$10,000
THE CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE$10,000
KINSHIP MKE$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF MERRILL INC$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OPEN INC$10,000
LINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$7,500
JESSI'S WISH$7,500
WESLEY-RANKIN COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER INC: $725 → 10%LAKES CRISIS & RESOURCE CENTER: $725 → 10%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%GRACEFUL ACRES: $3k → 12%ZION EDUCATION CENTER: $725 → 13%TRI CITIES MINISTRIES: $725 → 16%ORANGEBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $725 → 25%ONE VET AT A TIME INC: $5k → 10%CARING & SHARING OF SOUTH WALTON: $725 → 11%YMCA OF THE SUNCOAST INC: $725 → 12%THE LEAVENWORTH MISSION INC: $725 → 10%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $1k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS WISCONSIN REGION: $5k → 10%MOSAIC INTER-FAITH MINISTRIES: $725 → 8%COMMUNITY HELPING PLACE INC: $725 → 12%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $725 → 5%LOVE INC OF THE YAMPA VALLEY: $725 → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF NORTHWEST INDIANA: $2k → 15%BETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG: $10k → 8%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $2k → 9%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $8k → 17%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $1k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS-WICONSIN REGION: $3k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF NORTHWEST IN: $2k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF NORTHWEST IN: $2k → 15%OPERATION WILDCAT: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS-WISCONSIN REGION: $3k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF NORTHWEST INDIANA: $2k → 15%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS-WICONSIN REGION: $3k → 10%URBAN LEAGUE OF NORTHWEST IN: $1k → 15%SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $2k → 5%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 9%CHINESE INFORMATION AND SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 9%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST FRANCIS XAVIER CONFERENCE INC: $18k → 11%PARKSIDE PRE-SCHOOL CENTER LTD: $13k → 11%SHARP LITERACY: $3k → 17%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST FRANCIS XAVIER CONFERENCE INC: $3k → 11%SHARP LITERACY: $3k → 17%SHARP LITERACY: $3k → 17%HMONG AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $5k → 17%LIFE CENTER MILWAUKEE: $1k → 17%THE HAGAR HOUSE: $1k → 11%THE HAGAR HOUSE: $1k → 11%THE HAGAR HOUSE: $1k → 11%PATHFINDERS MILWAUKEE INC: $3k → 17%MILWAUKEE URBAN LEAGUE: $2k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 220 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

220 repeat relationships: 109 still active in FY2025, 111 since wound down; 125 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

220
859

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+18%

Still filing today

61%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MU
    Marquette University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $395k · revenue +24%
  • LP
    LIFE PROMOTIONS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $155k · revenue +87%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SA
    SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $58k
  • WE
    WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH - COMMISSION ON EVANGELISM
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
2
Cathedral Center Inc

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…

Religion
3
Samaritan House Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
5
Christian Care Communities Inc Group Return

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…

Human Services
6
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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7
Light of Life Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
8
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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9
Community Care Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
10
Shalom Center of Interfaith Network of Kenosha County Inc

Programs designed to serve the community's needs including a soup kitchen, family shelter, inns, food pantry, and other services.

Human Services
11
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County

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…

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12
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center; 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.
04the grantee network

466 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. 466 of the 1,209 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
116
Early backer (in before they grew)
462/466
Grantees still filing
296/466
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATI…Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $57,949 · OtherWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH - COMMISSION ON EVANGELISM: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $48,080 · Other+112 more: $614,877 · Other+112 moreMarquette University: $395,100 · EducationMarquette UniversityMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGEUW WAUSAU CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationUW WAUSAU CAMPUS FOUNDATION…THE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationTHE UWM FOUNDATION INCThurgood Marshall College Fund: $40,000 · EducationLe Moyne College: $30,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · Education+11 more: $53,945 · Education+11 moreMERRILL AREA UNITED WAY INC: $542,460 · PhilanthropyMERRILL AREA UNITED WAY IN…FELLOWSHIP OPEN INC: $99,000 · PhilanthropyFELLOWSHIP OPEN INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $32,917 · Philanthropy+12 more: $65,004 · Philanthropy+12 moreLIFE PROMOTIONS INC: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE PROMOT…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $126,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $15,500 · Youth Development+4 more: $15,644 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $23,180 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,000 · Human ServicesPARKSIDE PRESCHOOL CENTER LTD: $12,704 · Human ServicesBETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesSHARP LITERACY INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF NW INDIANA INC: $7,350 · Human ServicesHmong American Friendship Association Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesOne Vet A Time Inc PROJECT OVAT: $5,000 · Human ServicesChinese Information and Service Center: $5,000 · Human Services+12 more: $31,225 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF MERRILL INC: $19,387 · Food & NutritionTHE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $11,758 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $10,000 · Food & NutritionKINSHIP MKE INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $8,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $8,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $7,500 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $9,525 · Food & NutritionMERRILL COMMUNITY HOMELESS CENTER INC: $18,519 · Housing & ShelterTHREE RIVERS UNITED TEMPORARY HOUSING: $9,338 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE INC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FINALLY HOME: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBETHANY HOUSE OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,105,906Education$774,545Philanthropy$739,381Youth Development$312,644Human Services$135,459Food & Nutrition$97,670Housing & Shelter$46,857

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERRILL AREA UNITED WAY INC: $542,460 over 5y, 48% of budgetMarquette University: $395,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE PROMOTIONS INC: $155,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC: $126,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OPEN INC: $99,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetUW WAUSAU CAMPUS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $48,080 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $32,917 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLe Moyne College: $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION: $24,270 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $23,180 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD: $20,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY OF MERRILL INC: $19,387 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetHmong American Center Inc: $19,250 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMERRILL COMMUNITY HOMELESS CENTER INC: $18,519 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKSIDE PRESCHOOL CENTER LTD: $12,704 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $12,152 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $11,758 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc: $11,335 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBETHESDA MISSION OF HARRISBURG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER KATHRYN DANIELS CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS IN FOR YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE: $9,480 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHREE RIVERS UNITED TEMPORARY HOUSING: $9,338 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetPEACEFUL SOLUTIONS COUNSELING INC: $8,635 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYINC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARP LITERACY INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHY AMERICAS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF NW INDIANA INC: $7,350 over 5y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Ba & Esther Greenheck FoundationWI53.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
54report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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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