· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| STEVENS POINT AREA YMCA | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN PUBLIC TELEVIS | $10,000 |
| CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC | $9,000 |
| OPERATION BOOTSTRAP | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NWGL INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| CELEBRATE PLOVER FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS WISCONSIN | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +34% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 55 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 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 MYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward J Okray Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward J Okray Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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