· Private foundation
Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $248k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of ED AND NANCY REINHART HENGEL FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $50,000 |
| MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY YMCA | $40,000 |
| ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION | $25,000 |
| HEROES HELPING HEROES | $25,000 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES-LEADERSHIP CIRCLE | $2,000 |
| FATHER JOSEPH WALIJEWSKI LEGACY BUI | $1,300 |
| LA CROSSE AREA CRIMESTOPPERS | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| THE EXCHANGE | $1,000 |
| LA CROSSE POLICE K-9 FUND | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -60% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SOSHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +27%
- LCLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $280k · revenue +36%
- SCST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- SPST PATRICK PARISHone grant, 2017 · $100k
- AFAQUINAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BSBLESSED SACRAMENTone grant, 2018 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
We, covenant medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. covenant medical center is a member of trinity health.
The mission of gundersen lutheran medical foundation, inc. is to improve the lives of patients and our larger community through medical education, research, outreach, and the philanthropic support of gundersen health system.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Rivers United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hope for Fertility Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES HELPING HEROES HEROES HELPING HEROES ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lyche Family Foundation Inc · La Crosse Community Foundation · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Otto Bremer Trust · Glendenning Family Foundation Inc · June Onefive Foundation Inc · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc
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 Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family 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.
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.
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