· Private foundation
Culver's 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $640k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $294k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLAGE OF PRAIRIE DU SAC | $250,000 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $244,300 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $50,000 |
| SAUK PRAIRIE SOLAR PANEL | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN | $30,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE | $20,000 |
| BADGER CHILDHOOD CANCER NETWORK | $20,000 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR CLINIC | $20,000 |
| WRA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $20,000 |
| FIRST TEE-SOUTH CENTRAL WI | $20,000 |
| SAUK PRAIRIE FOOD PANTRY | $20,000 |
| SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC | $20,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
139 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 23 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k 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
- ACAMERICA'S CHARITIES2× · 2022–2024 · $294k · revenue +43%
- SPSAUK PRAIRIE AREA FOOD PANTRY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +107%
- TKThe Kids Ranch Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $524k
- GCGOODMAN COMMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $20k
- UCUW-EAU CLAIREone grant, 2020 · $17k
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Norbert College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Badger Childhood Cancer Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
124 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. 124 of the 369 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds SAUK PRAIRIE AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Kids Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds Badger Childhood Cancer Network Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBOR CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON UNIVERSITY A BAPTIST INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAINBOW PROJECT 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor 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 Culver's 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Florida College Inc — 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.
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