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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
World Vision$500
Friends of PBS Wisconsin 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.

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Its 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 its 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
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 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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agnesian Healthcare Foundation Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
2/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCBADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $10,000 · OtherFoundation for Christian Ed in E Central WI: $10,000 · OtherTRINITY REFORMED CHURCH 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWAUPUN AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Daniel and Carleen Vande Zande Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daniel and Carleen Vande Zande Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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 13 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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