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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.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,455
Largest grant, FY2024
$21,850
Organizations funded a year
12 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$22k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$100k23%
FY202312$106k42%
FY202214$100k29%
FY202114$104k57%
FY202022$100k32%
FY201923$100k52%
FY201816$100k38%
FY201718$100kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$194kHuman Services$133kEducation$100kEnvironment$78kReligion$51kHealth$49kAnimals$29kRecreation & Sports$27kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northern Sky Theater Inc$91,85081%
Sunshine House Inc$90,20032%
Crossroads at Big Creek Inc$77,65056%
Northern Door Childrens Center Inc$26,50041%
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc$21,00030%
Friends of Peninsula State Park Inc$18,50052%
Southern New Hampshire University$8,73530%
Wisconsin Masters Games Inc$8,5004n/a
Ephraim Moravian Church$7,0002n/a
Birch Creek Music Performance Center Inc$6,55020%
Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc$6,30041%
Unity Limited Partnership$5,00010%
Sister Bay Historical Society Inc$4,10023%
Help of Door County Inc$4,00011%
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$3,3745n/a
The School of Architecture$2,60010%
Wauwatosa Historical Society$2,0001n/a
Door County Historical Society$1,55021%
Door County Library Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a
Baileys Harbor Historical Society$1,0421n/a
Door County Learning in Retirement Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($422k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthern Sky Theater Inc: $91,850 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSunshine House Inc: $90,200 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCrossroads at Big Creek Inc: $77,650 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetNorthern Door Childrens Center Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHumane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc: $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Peninsula State Park Inc: $18,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $8,735 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBirch Creek Music Performance Center Inc: $6,550 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc: $6,300 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetUnity Limited Partnership: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSister Bay Historical Society Inc: $4,100 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHelp of Door County Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe School of Architecture: $2,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDoor County Historical Society: $1,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Door County Community Foundation IncWI30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust

How much does Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust give?
Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $100,268 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (16%), Education (12%).
Who are Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northern Sky Theater Inc ($92k), Sunshine House Inc ($90k), Crossroads at Big Creek Inc ($78k).
Does Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Door County Community Foundation Inc, Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation, Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust based?
Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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