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Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
37%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,200
Organizations funded a year
19 to 26
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$94k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$10k32%
FY202319$7k37%
FY202222$7k27%
FY202126$8k42%
FY202026$7kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$21kPublic Benefit$6kPhilanthropy$3kEducation$2kHuman Services$900Community Improvement$800Health$700Animals$650Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Delafield Community Fund Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fund for American Studies: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCompetitive Enterprise Institute: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCapital Research Center: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetState Policy Network: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedia Research Center: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Government Accountability Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWaukesha County Land Conservancy Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Lutheran College Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpay Lee Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPatty Baker Humane Society Naples Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Daily Caller News Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Catholic Home Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProhealth Care Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Legislative Exchange Council: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStop Soldier Suicide Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Health Clinic Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independent Institute: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation

How much does Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation give?
Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $10,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Public Benefit (14%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Christ the King Lutheran Church ($19k), Judicial Watch Inc ($3k), Greater Delafield Community Fund Inc ($3k).
Does Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation based?
Donald L & Valerie D Gottschalk Foundation is based in WI.

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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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