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Ellenbecker Investment Group Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of Ellenbecker Investment Group Charitable 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWS | $3,000 |
| Nativity Jesuit Academy | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| Marleh Lehmann Scholarship Foundati | $1,000 |
| Life's Connection | $1,000 |
| The Womens Center | $1,000 |
| Calvary Baptist School | $1,000 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | $1,000 |
| Soles For Jesus | $1,000 |
| Loisaba Community Conservation Foun | $1,000 |
| Discover Church | $1,000 |
| Midwest Australian Shepherd Rescue | $1,000 |
| MACC Fund | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Underdog Pet Rescue WI | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2023, 48 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Center for Veterans Issues Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +20%- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +288%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +392%
Funded once
- I1Impact 100one grant, 2021 · $3k
- SFSecure Futuresone grant, 2022 · $3k
PEWAUKEE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +88%
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.
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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)
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
Our mission is to promote the quality of life of our communities by empowering others and working together to creatively solve unique health and long term care needs. to carry out this mission, we: 1. operate on a sustainable financial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Midwest Australian Shepherd Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Center for Veterans Issues Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAUKESHA COUNTY CHRISTMAS CLEARING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WEST AFRICAN MERCY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLES FOR JESUS ↗
- Who funds PEWAUKEE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HERO OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds A Doll Like Me 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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Generac Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Emil Ewald Family Foundation Inc · Youth Foundation Inc · Harley-Davidson Foundation 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 Ellenbecker Investment Group Charitable 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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