· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HEROES HELPING HEROES | $25,000 |
| ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION | $25,000 |
| ARTIS-NAPLES-LEADERSHIP CIRCLE | $2,000 |
| FATHER JOSEPH WALIJEWSKI LEGACY BUI | $1,300 |
| LA CROSSE AREA CRIMESTOPPERS | $1,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| THE EXCHANGE | $1,000 |
| LA CROSSE POLICE K-9 FUND | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 30% of Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -60% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CCCOULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -69%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- 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 HEROES HELPING HEROES HEROES HELPING HEROES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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