· Private foundation
Cleary-Kumm 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k92 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Outdoor Recreation Alliance | $150,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $100,000 |
| American Red Cross | $60,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of La Crosse | $50,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $50,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $25,000 |
| Great Rivers United Way Inc | $25,000 |
| Rotary District 6250 Foundation | $25,000 |
| Great Rivers United Way Inc | $25,000 |
| Mayo Clinic | $20,000 |
| School District of La Crosse | $18,985 |
| Marquette Law Women Scholarship | $15,000 |
| St Monica School | $15,000 |
| University of Wis Foundation | $15,000 |
| Drift Share Inc | $11,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 Cleary-Kumm 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 17 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- WHWISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $245k · revenue +299%
- GRGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $201k · revenue +35%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS4× · 2021–2024 · $174k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $187k
- WFWafer Food Pantryone grant, 2022 · $100k
- YYMCAone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
To support university of wisconsin la crosse by building and maintaining relationships among students, alumni, friends and the university.
Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…
Usa lacrosse is the governing body of men's and women's lacrosse in the united states. with over 415,000 members across the country, usa lacrosse provides leadership, structure and resources to fuel lacrosse's growth and enrich the…
World lacrosse is the international olympic committee recognized international federation for the sport of lacrosse. as such, it governs the sport globally working with 90+ member national governing bodies and four (4) currently recognized…
The uwl alumni and friends foundation exists to build lifelong relationships and raise private support to advance the mission of the university of wisconsin-la crosse.
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.
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Wisconsin collaborative for healthcare quality, inc. publicly reports and brings meaning to performance measurement information that improves the quality and affordability of healthcare in wisconsin, in turn improving the health of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is La Crosse City Vision Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% 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 12% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 193 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 WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR RECREATION ALLIANCE OF THE SEVEN RIVERS REGION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds OKTOBERFEST USA GEMUTLICHKEIT FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 6250 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY LIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds DRIFT SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE NEIGHBORHOODS 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: La Crosse Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Alm Charities Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214
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 Cleary-Kumm 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.
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.