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Deena Hatch Foundation

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.

$760k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.2MHealth$1.1MEducation$903kHousing & Shelter$425kReligion$387kArts & Culture$236kInternational$139kCommunity Improvement$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $194k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $542k
$42,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O$125,000
MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIO$100,000
MAUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT$75,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN$75,000
NECEDAH AREA SCHOOLS$66,800
JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV$50,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF$50,000
ST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH$49,000
TRUTH AND TIDINGS COSPEL TRUST-USA$48,000
BRIDGES TO BURKINA$42,000
FAMILY CENTER INC$25,000
SHIRLEY'S HOUSE OF HOPE$10,000
NECEDAH FOOD PANTRY$10,000
KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC$10,000
PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF WI$6,000
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 (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $180k → 12%KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $150k → 12%KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $125k → 12%KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $100k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $100k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $75k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $55k → 12%KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC: $15k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $50k → 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE O: $35k → 12%KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $75k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $50k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $50k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $50k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $50k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $50k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $40k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $35k → 14%JUNEAU COUNTY SUPPORT EDUCATION ADV: $25k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 19 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
5

Total granted

$4.4M
$156k

Still filing today

47%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterReligionInternationalOther
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

  • Catholic Charities of the Diocese
    9× · 2017–2025 · $870k · revenue +40%
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +39%
  • JC
    JUNEAU CO SUPPORT EDUCATION ADVOCACY CORP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +61% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $80k
  • SM
    ST MARIA GORETTI CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF LA CROSSE WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
Friendship House of Milwaukee
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2
Society of St Vincent De Paul of Waukesha County Inc

Assisting those in need in our area

Human Services
3
Society of St Vincent de Paul of Waukesha County

We provide financial and spiritual aid to the underprivileged, including rent and utility assistance, food, clothing, household items so they can meet their financial obligations caused by unexpected circumstances. We served over 46 people…

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4
The Wausaukee Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc

To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.

Housing & Shelter
6
South Whidbey Homeless Coalition

We provide community members facing homlessness with chelter, resurces, and advoccy to create a strong and thriving widbey island.

Housing & Shelter
7
Society of St Vincent De Paul Waukesha County Inc St Dismas

Support and encouragement to those inside and those recently released from the penal system providing a path to rebuild their life after incarceration.

Human Services
8
Lakeshore Retrouvaille-Wisconsin

Religious Programming

Human Services
9
St Joseph Conference - Marinette Wi of the Society of St Vincent Depaul

Provide its members with spiritual growth, fellowship and to serve people in need.

Human Services
10
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services
11
Women and Children's Horizons Inc

The mission of women and children's horizons, inc. is to provide support, shelter, education, training, and healing services to victims of sexual and domestic abuse, their families, and the community.

Human Services
12
Salt Creek Ministries Inc

To provide an environment for women to find their full potential through jesus christ, and to become role models through their faith that will continue on in their homes, churches, and community

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kindness Community 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 26 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NECEDAH AREA SCHOOLS: $592,118 · OtherNECEDAH AREA SCHOOLSRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF: $420,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH: $302,000 · OtherST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISHMAUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICT: $270,000 · OtherMAUSTON SCHOOL DISTRICTWISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC: $250,000 · OtherWISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INCTRUTH AND TIDINGS COSPEL TRUST-USA: $176,000 · OtherTRUTH AND TIDINGS COSPEL TRUST-USAIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · Other+11 more: $264,000 · Other+11 moreCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $870,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the DioceseJUNEAU CO SUPPORT EDUCATION ADVOCACY CORP: $425,000 · Human ServicesJUNEAU CO SUPPORT EDUCATION ADVOCA…KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $455,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUN…MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthMILE BLUFF MEDIC…BRIDGES TO BURKINA INC: $138,900 · InternationalSHIRLEYS HOUSE OF HOPE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBE STILL INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$2,354,118Human Services$1,365,000Health$655,000International$138,900Housing & Shelter$20,000Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese: $870,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $455,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetJUNEAU CO SUPPORT EDUCATION ADVOCACY CORP: $425,000 over 9y, 63% of budgetWISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC: $250,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetMILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBRIDGES TO BURKINA INC: $138,900 over 4y, 44% of budgetKINDNESS COMMUNITY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetSHIRLEYS HOUSE OF HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBE STILL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% 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 Catholic Charities of the Diocese ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNEAU CO SUPPORT EDUCATION ADVOCACY CORP ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGES TO BURKINA INC ↗
  • Who funds KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHIRLEYS HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds BE STILL 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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Deena Hatch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deena Hatch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Deena Hatch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Deena Hatch Foundation 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 26 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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