· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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