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Dan Storey Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dan Storey Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$80kHuman Services$30kHousing & Shelter$26kEnvironment$25kEducation$18kPhilanthropy$15kYouth Development$7kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$940k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND SERVICE$1,000
UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN$500
KIDS VOTING USA OF MARATHON COUNTY INC$500
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HAGAR HOUSE INCORPORATED: $5k → 11%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$192k · 15 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$192k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+21%

Still filing today

47%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PA
    PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +582%
  • WY
    WOODSON YMCA INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +93%
  • LY
    LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HAGAR HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -28%
  • GW
    GREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -482%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $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
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Waukesha County Historical Society & Museum Inc

The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.

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3
Rock River Repertory Theatre

Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.

Arts & Culture
4
Waukesha County Land Conservancy Inc

To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin

Environment
5
West Wisconsin Land Trust Inc

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.

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6
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
7
Markesan Historical Society
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8
Waukesha County Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
9
Wisconsin Housing Preservation Corp

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Center for the Visual Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Eagles Nest Projects Wisconsin

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…

Education
12
Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing & Productivity

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners Campus Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MONK BOTANICAL GARDENS: $25,000 · OtherMONK BOTANICAL GARDENSWOODSON YMCA INC: $22,000 · OtherWOODSON YMCA INCLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · OtherLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INCIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN - CENTRAL WI: $10,000 · OtherMEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN - CENTRAL WIJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $6,500 · OtherGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+13 more: $24,200 · Other+13 morePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION…CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC+3 more: $3,550 · Arts & Culture+3 moreCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $22,500 · Public BenefitCOMMUNITY …UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $6,500 · PhilanthropyTHE HAGAR HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC: $3,000 · InternationalBADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED: $2,400 · Youth Development
Other$135,200Arts & Culture$56,050Public Benefit$22,500Philanthropy$14,500Human Services$5,000International$3,000Youth Development$2,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWOODSON YMCA INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAGAR HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WAUSAU PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP L PARTNERSHIP LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWAUSAU AND MARATHON COUNTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 70% of budgetTHE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIRONBULL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWausau Lyric Choir Inc: $750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CENTRAL RIVERS FARMSHED INC: $100 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.

Ba & Esther Greenheck…Dudley Foundation IncDwight and Linda Davi…Judd S Alexander Foun…Community Foundation …Incrediblebank Founda…Bell Family Charitabl…Paul & Ruth Schultz F…Victor & Helen Geisel…The Macdonald Foundat…Abbybank Foundation I…Wisconsin Public Serv…
Ba & Esther Greenheck FoundationWI36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    6report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dan Storey Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dan Storey 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 32 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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