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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 it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Individual grant recipient$30,000
TOWN OF CITY POINT$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
CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE$2,000
PINE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,000
NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLE$2,000
MICHIGAN TECH UNIVERSITY$1,000
OAK GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$1,000
MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING$1,000
MID STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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 & DisasterHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EXTENSION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • PL
    PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee School of Engineering; 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 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. 8 of the 35 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds Caring Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds CUTLER VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds RIPON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE 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.

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

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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 Cutler Cranberry Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cutler Cranberry Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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, 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.

    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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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