· Private foundation
Edward J Okray Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION I | $100,000 |
| MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM FOU | $40,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSN OF GREATER WI | $15,000 |
| MYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC | $15,000 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVIS | $10,000 |
| CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC | $9,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
| CELEBRATE PLOVER FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| CAP SERVICES INC - FAMILY CRISIS CE | $5,000 |
| OPERATION BOOTSTRAP | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FFFARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $566k · revenue +291%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE9× · 2017–2025 · $426k · revenue +117%
- OBOPERATION BOOTSTRAP9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- SMST MICHAEL'S FOUNDATION OF STEVENSone grant, 2018 · $65k
- NCNONPROFIT CENTER OF CENTRAL WISCONSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- WPWISCONSINEYE PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INCone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -55%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The portage foundation inspires, impacts, and engages the portage county community by ensuring pathways of enduring support to meet local needs. we are committed to integrity and accountability in connecting donors with recipients,…
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
Wisconsin progress institute exists to empower wisconsin's locally elected leaders with the tools, training, and support they need to be effective, values-driven public servants.
The Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Foundation WPBF supports the work of the Educational Communications Board ECB a State of Wisconsin agency committed to ensuring that public media and public safety programs and services are available…
To foster the vitality of rural wisconsin, primarily through the promotion of education, improvement of health care services, cultural experiences, and support of the rural economic base.
To promote effective philanthropy in wi through education, best practices, enhanced partnerships & leadership
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
To educate visitors of all ages about how and where their food is produced and why agriculture is so important to them.
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Farming for the Future Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 55 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 FARMING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PORTAGE ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS STEVENS POINT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BOOTSTRAP ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATE PLOVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL AT ALTENBURGS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STEVENS POINT CURLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSINEYE PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL RIVERS FARMSHED INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE 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.
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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 Edward J Okray 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.