· Private foundation
Exacto 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAFTON PARKS SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| OZAUKEE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| FGCU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GRAFTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $4,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION- ROSE HARMS | $500 |
| GRAFTON LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
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 (FY18–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 20 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- GOGatherings On The Green Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $71k · revenue +14%
- HHHOMETOWN HEROES INC6× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +114%
- GAGRAFTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE5× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- GCGRAFTON COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
Center for Veterans Issues Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +13%- GKGRAFTON K9 FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Funding for volunteer fire department
The Cedarburg Education Foundation provides a means for schools individuals and businesses to work together to help students achieve their potential by providing financial support through private funding.
Promote and facilitate alumni fellowship with mailings and events - scholarship awared annually to groveton high school graduates
To promote, publicize, and support all athletics at grafton high school
To raise and distribute scholarship money to graduating high school seniors who reside within the Cedarburg School District - whether or not they attend Cedarburg High School.
A non for profit providing library services to Grafton NY and surrounding communities
To award scholarships to graduates of fitch high school
To receive and accept property that will be exclusively used for charitable purposes, primarily for the benefit of Gratiot County residents and institutions.
Fundraising for and awarding education scholarships to high school seniors.
Fundraising for cedarburg grafton rotary
To provide ambulance services to the oconto county region.
Philanthropic support of the Gleason Public Library through the use of funds from gifts received and investment income.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grafton Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodview Parent Teacher Group. 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 32 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 47% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 80 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 GRAFTON PARKS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Gatherings On The Green Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMETOWN HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds MEQUON-THIENSVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Veterans Issues Inc ↗
- Who funds SERVICE CLUB OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Balance Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODVIEW PARENT TEACHER GROUP ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT LITERACY CENTER OF OZAUKEE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Evangel University ↗
- Who funds COPE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAUKVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON GLADIATORS INC ↗
- Who funds American Legion Landt - Thiel Post 470 ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Exacto 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.
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