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Cutler Cranberry Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$278kPublic Benefit$155kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kFood & Nutrition$91kHuman Services$29kCommunity Improvement$19kMembership Benefit$15kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF CITY POINT$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$23,000
NECEDAH FOOD PANTRY$5,000
CARING CLOSET$5,000
NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR$5,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLE$2,000
PINE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,000
CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE$2,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$1,000
MID STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE$1,000
MICHIGAN TECH UNIVERSITY$1,000
OAK GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$855k · 18 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$855k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+8%

Still filing today

28%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NF
    NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +31%
  • CV
    CUTLER VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $16k · revenue +12%
  • RC
    RIPON COLLEGE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • PL
    PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EXTENSION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
2
Simpson College

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.

Education
3
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
4
Madonna University

The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…

Education
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
7
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
8
Xavier University

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…

Education
9
Calvin University

The mission of calvin university is to equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world.

Education
10
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
11
The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences

The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…

Education
12
Trinity International University

Trinity international university is an institution of higher education that offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs. trinity international university educates men and women for faithful participation in god's redemptive…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee School of Engineering and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of the Great Rivers 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM — $217,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMIndividual grant recipient — $188,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWN OF CITY POINT — $173,550 · OtherTOWN OF CITY POINTCITY POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMEN — $79,555 · OtherCITY POINT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENNEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC — $43,700 · OtherNECEDAH FOOD PANTRY — $37,500 · Other+24 more — $128,011 · Other+24 moreCUTLER VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC — $15,500 · Public Safety & DisasterRIPON COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $4,000 · EducationFAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$867,316Public Safety & Disaster$15,500Education$9,000Human Services$5,000Housing & Shelter$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC — $43,700 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCaring Closet Inc — $28,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetCUTLER VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC — $15,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetRIPON COLLEGE — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC
  • Who funds Caring Closet Inc
  • Who funds CUTLER VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC
  • Who funds RIPON COLLEGE
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
  • Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE 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.

Herb Kohl Educational Foundation IncWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Cutler Cranberry 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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