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Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc

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.

$630k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$107k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$707kRecreation & Sports$272kHuman Services$225kArts & Culture$217kHealth$44kCommunity Improvement$10kEmployment$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $545k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC$107,000
META HOUSE INC$100,000
HISTORIC HAYMARKET MILWAUKEE I INC$75,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$62,500
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$50,000
IMMOKOLEE FOUNDATION$25,000
SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA CEO$5,000
NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC$5,000
MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC (MACC FUND)$5,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$5,000
ST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 8%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 8%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 8%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1k → 8%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER: $750 → 8%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $3k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $3k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $2k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $2k → 10%NAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING: $2k → 10%SERENITY INNS: $3k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $3k → 17%SERENITY INNS: $2k → 17%SERENITY INN: $2k → 17%SECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 17%JOBS WORK MKE INC: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
NJ
NC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 40 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
29

Total granted

$2.5M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+25%

Still filing today

85%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $383k · revenue +21%
  • TI
    THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $203k · revenue +67%
  • META HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -26%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -25%
  • BU
    BADGERS UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -92%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
3
Wisconsin Section of the Pga of America Inc

To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the wisconsin section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf professionals…

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4
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…

Education
5
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement
6
Milwaukee Bar Association Inc

The mission of the milwaukee bar association is to be an inclusive, equitable and diverse organization that serves the interests of the lawyers, judges and the people of milwaukee county by working to promote the professional interests of…

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7
Wisconsin Maritime Museum Inc

The wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…

Arts & Culture
8
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

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9
The University School of Milwaukee Corporation

University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…

Education
10
Milwaukee Excellence Inc

The mission of the organization is to provide a high quality education for all students with choices after graduation that will provide financial stability, inspire personal freedom to builda legacy.

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11
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters

To cultivate civil discourse, increase understanding, and create common ground by connecting wisconsin people and ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First Stage Milwaukee; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
47/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $673,489 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKES…THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $202,500 · PhilanthropyTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC+7 more: $38,800 · PhilanthropyEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $617,500 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONMETA HOUSE INC: $200,000 · OtherMETA HOUSE INC+32 more: $90,475 · Other+32 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $382,703 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCON…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE …THE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · Education+6 more: $33,000 · Education+6 moreHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHistoric …UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED PE…MILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE…MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $19,400 · Arts & Culture+10 moreSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesSERENITY INNS INC: $8,500 · Human ServicesNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $4,750 · Human ServicesJOBSWORK MKE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF SE WI INC: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $300 · Recreation & SportsMIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $10,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · Health
Philanthropy$914,789Other$907,975Education$466,203Arts & Culture$207,400Human Services$34,750Recreation & Sports$24,300Health$20,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $673,489 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $382,703 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $202,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMETA HOUSE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHistoric Haymarket Milwaukee Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UWM FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE BALLET COMPANY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE NAVIGATORS INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN STATE GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,300 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA CEO: $10,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECUREFUTURES FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNAPLES TAKE A SOLDIER FISHING INC: $9,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSERENITY INNS INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetST AUGUSTINE PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBADGERS UNITED INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTALL PINES CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PENINSULA STATE PARK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetACADEMY OF BASIC EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHENEQUA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetNETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $4,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER DELAFIELD COMMUNITY FUND INC: $3,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCADDIE & LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF SE WI INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPrevent Blindness Wisconsin: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCongaree Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOBSWORK MKE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHARON LYNNE WILSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUSSGA MEMORIAL FUND INC: $1,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWBCS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Fou…United Way of Greater…Evan & Marion Helfaer…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Bradley Impact Fund I…Baird Foundation IncGreen Bay Packers Fou…Anon Charitable TrustRalph Evinrude Founda…Waukesha County Commu…The Lynde and Harry B…Greater Green Bay Com…
Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI46.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Anon Charitable Trust · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Curt and Sue Culver Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 78 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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