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Daniel and Carleen Vande Zande 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.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Education$95kReligion$89kArts & Culture$79kHealth$78kYouth Development$20kFood & Nutrition$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kInternational$500
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UW Foundation$10,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$3,000
American Red Cross$1,000
Friends of PBS Wisconsin Inc$500
World Vision$500
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $1k → 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 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.

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Waupun Memorial Hospital

The mission of waupun memorial hospital is to provide compassionate care that brings hope, health, and wholeness to those we serve by honoring the sacredness and dignity of all persons at every stage of life. we are rooted in the healing…

Health
2
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
3
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
4
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
5
Friends of University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Inc

Friends of uw health is a non-profit organization that funds programs and services to improve the lives of the patients and families we serve and support special health-related needs in the dane county area.

Health
6
Wisconsin Foundation United Church of Christ Inc

Wisconsin foundation united church of christ, inc. is a catalyst for positive change in the life of the united church of christ in wisconsin; promotes a culture of generosity; and connects people across the ucc in working for a more just…

Religion
7
Westconsin Credit Union

The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…

8
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
9
Wisconsin Technology Innovation Initiative Inc

Support, promote, and facilitate partnerships with and provide funding for innovative early-stage and startup companies to lessen the burdens of government by promoting economic development and creating sustaining jobs in wisconsin.

10
Wisconsin Public Health Association Inc

Our mission is to build collective action to address root-causes and advance public health policy & practice to achieve a vision for a healthier, safer, and more equitable wisconsin.

11
Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

Promote and facilitate services to wisconsin's private nonprofit colleges and universities.

Education
12
Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc

The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agnesian Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waupun Area Food Pantry 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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORDS OF HOPE INC — $78,800 · OtherWORDS OF HOPE INCGIDEONS INTERNATIONAL — $78,800 · OtherGIDEONS INTERNATIONALAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · OtherAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INCTRINITY REFORMED CHURCH INC — $10,000 · OtherFoundation for Christian Ed in E Central WI — $10,000 · OtherBADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $85,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN F…WAUPUN AREA FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionREACH WAUPUN INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 · Human ServicesWORLD VISION INC — $500 · InternationalFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC — $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$262,600Education$85,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Health$3,000Human Services$1,000International$500Arts & Culture$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWAUPUN AREA FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetREACH WAUPUN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC — $500 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Daniel and Carleen Vande Zande 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.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 13 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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