Wisconsin · Community foundation
Door County Community Foundation Inc
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 148
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 121
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $8.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,353,510
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 121
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $64M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Door County Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 145 | $8.2M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 121 | $6.2M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $2.5M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $3.9M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $4.4M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $3.6M | 58% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $963k | 29% |
| FY2017 | 45 | $3.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write on Door County Inc | $2,720,009 | 8 | 34% |
| Door County Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | $2,267,871 | 8 | 88% |
| Third Avenue Playhouse Inc | $2,234,309 | 7 | 73% |
| United Way of Door County Inc | $1,613,305 | 7 | 16% |
| Door Community Auditorium Corp | $1,170,939 | 6 | 24% |
| Door County YMCA INC | $883,132 | 8 | 3% |
| Northern Sky Theater Inc | $806,483 | 6 | 15% |
| Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation Inc | $711,542 | 6 | 86% |
| Door County Land Trust Inc | $665,374 | 8 | 5% |
| Workforce Housing Lending Corporation | $580,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 214 grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Door County Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · United Way of Door County Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Lutsey Family Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Hislop Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Mmg Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Cordon Family Foundation Charitable Trust
How this is measured
Compare Door County Community Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Door County Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Door County Community Foundation Inc give?
- Door County Community Foundation Inc reported 148 itemized grants totaling $8,236,323, out of $9,054,329 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 121 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Door County Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Health (10%), Education (7%).
- Who are Door County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Write on Door County Inc ($2.7M), Door County Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($2.3M), Third Avenue Playhouse Inc ($2.2M).
- Does Door County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Door County Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Door County Community Foundation Inc based?
- Door County Community Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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