· Private foundation
Dan Storey Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $8,300 |
| CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM | $7,500 |
| PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| GOOD NEWS PROJECT INC | $3,000 |
| LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN - NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN | $1,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND SERVICE | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN | $500 |
| KIDS VOTING USA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC | $500 |
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 (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +582%
- WYWOODSON YMCA INC6× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +93%
- LYLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC6× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- THTHE HAGAR HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -28%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- GWGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTDone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -482%
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.
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
The mission of the west wisconsin land trust, inc. is to preserve western wisconsin's natural character by informing, facilitating, and partnering with private landowners, communities, and local governments to protect valuable land.
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
Whpc acquires, preserves and develops low-income and affordable housing in wisconsin. the majority of the housing is subsidized through the u.s. department of housing and urban development, u.s.d.a. rural development, federal and state…
Center for the visual arts (cva) in downtown wausau enhances the vitality and vibrancy of the community, offering art classes, gallery space for exhibits, and community programs. not for profit art centers like the cva, provide exhibit…
Eagles Nest Projects Wisconsin is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to inspire and educate youth through hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs focused on aviation. The…
The wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners Campus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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
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 PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD ↗
- Who funds Keep Area Teens Safe Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds IRONBULL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wausau Lyric Choir Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL RIVERS FARMSHED 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: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Paul & Ruth Schultz Fdn Agy · Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation · The Macdonald Foundation · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service 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 Dan Storey 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.
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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