· Private foundation
Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY NAME OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $21,850 |
| UNIV OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER | $17,646 |
| CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN SKY THEATER | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,875 |
| FRIENDS OF PENINSULA PARK | $6,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIV | $4,455 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CTR | $3,850 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $2,544 |
| PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE | $2,500 |
| MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $2,256 |
| GIRL SCOUT TROOP 4356 | $2,250 |
| BAILEYS HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,042 |
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 (FY17–21, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
SUNSHINE HOUSE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +20%
CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC5× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +95%- NDNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC4× · 2018–2021 · $27k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- SBSTURGEON BAY AGING DISABILITY CENone grant, 2021 · $40k
- DCDOOR COUNTY GRANARY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SBSTURGEON BAY HISTORIC SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
Historical education and preservation
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
Service for disabled adults
Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
The milwaukee county historical society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve, and make available materials relating to the history of the milwaukee community.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunshine House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Northwoods 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 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 63 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 NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MASTERS GAMES INC ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SISTER BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Charles & Marcia Larsenanthony & Priscilla Beadell Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc · Lutsey Family Foundation · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Hislop Family Foundation · Tatman Foundation
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 Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust 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.