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Elmore & Alyce Kraemer Char Tr

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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$399k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$1.5MHuman Services$992kEducation$739kReligion$738kPhilanthropy$717kYouth Development$492kEnvironment$246kAnimals$246kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $399k
$199,809
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF$398,966
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$199,809
THE THRESHOLD INC$199,809
THE SALVATION ARMY$199,809
THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$199,809
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$199,809
WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$199,809
THE RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER$199,809
THE CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP APPEAL$199,809
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$199,809
THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE$199,809
GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SE$199,809
BAY LAKES COUNCIL -$199,809
ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL$199,809
Individual grant recipient$199,809
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 14%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $200k → 6%FRIENDS INC: $199k → 6%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $9k → 6%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $8k → 6%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $8k → 6%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $7k → 6%FRIENDS OF ABUSED FAMILIES: $7k → 6%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $7k → 6%KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC: $7k → 6%Benevolent Corporation Cedar Community: $7k → 6%BENEVOLENT CORPORATION CEDAR COMMUNITY: $653 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 29 repeat orgs$215k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
2

Total granted

$5.9M
$14k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $246k · revenue +6%
  • MP
    MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $246k · revenue +116%
  • TT
    THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED
    7× · 2019–2025 · $246k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

2
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
3
Wisconsin Bankers Association

We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.

4
Westconsin Credit Union

The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…

5
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
6
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

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.

9
Southern Lakes Credit Union

We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.

10
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

11
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

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)

Education
12
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF — $437,974 · OtherTHE CHRISTIAN WOMEN OFTHE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $246,007 · OtherTHE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORMORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $246,007 · OtherMORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INCTHE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED — $246,007 · OtherTHE THRESHOLD INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient — $246,007 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST JOSEPH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL — $246,007 · OtherST JOSEPH COMMUNITY HOSPITALTHE CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP APPEAL — $246,007 · OtherTHE CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP APPEALTHE SALVATION ARMY — $246,006 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYWEST BEND LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $246,006 · OtherWEST BEND LITTLE LEAGUE INCAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY — $246,006 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYTHE WEST BEND COLUMNS FUND INC — $245,355 · OtherTHE WEST BEND COLUMNS FUND INCWASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT — $238,817 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTCedar Community Foundation Inc — $225,903 · OtherCedar Community Foundation Inc+8 more — $169,341 · OtherKETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC — $246,007 · Human ServicesKETTLE MORA…FRIENDS INC — $206,347 · Human ServicesFRIENDS INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $199,809 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…+1 more — $7,777 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $246,006 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $246,006 · HealthWASHINGTON COUNTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $246,006 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $246,006 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $246,007 · Youth DevelopmentBAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $224,410 · Youth DevelopmentRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC — $246,007 · EnvironmentTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $246,006 · AnimalsUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $246,006 · Philanthropy
Other$3,531,450Human Services$659,940Health$492,012Education$492,012Youth Development$470,417Environment$246,007Animals$246,006Philanthropy$246,006

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC — $246,007 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetMORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $246,007 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED — $246,007 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC — $246,007 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetKETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC — $246,007 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $246,006 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $246,006 over 7y, 27% of budgetWEST BEND LITTLE LEAGUE INC — $246,006 over 7y, 53% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $246,006 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $246,006 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC — $246,006 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $246,006 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $224,410 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS INC — $206,347 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $199,809 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENEVOLENT CORPORATION CEDAR COMMUNITY — $7,777 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC
  • Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC
  • Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WEST BEND LITTLE LEAGUE INC
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds Cedar Community Foundation Inc
  • Who funds BAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds FRIENDS INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT CORPORATION CEDAR COMMUNITY

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.

West Bend Community Foundation IncWI28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Community Trust Norman a Schowalter · Westbury Bank Charitable Foundation · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust · Phyllis & Walter Malzahn Charitable Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Elmore & Alyce Kraemer Char Tr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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