· Private foundation
Flowers Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL METHODS IN LEARNING EQUINE SKILLS INC | $75,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $30,000 |
| LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCIS CENTER | $25,000 |
| SERVANTS OF THE PIERCED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY | $23,750 |
| INDIANA RECOVERY ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE | $10,000 |
| CHRISTEN FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FUND CO UW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOR PETES SAKE | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASHWABAY ALLIANCE INC | $10,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Flowers Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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
- TCTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $66k · revenue +437%
- SOSERVANTS OF THE PIERCED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +153%
- WWWISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SFSTOUGHTON FOOTBALL INCone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +3%
- FHFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIESone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +1% · 48% of their budget
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +23%
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 organization serves homeless families with dependent children through an emergency and transitional residential program. the center offers physical, emotional, social and educational services to assist families in the transition to…
To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.
Building on our legacy of caring, the center for family services exists to assist, support and strenghten individuals and families throughout our communities.
Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Lutheran counseling and family services of wisconsin provides faith-based mental health counseling, family life education and adoption services.
The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…
To provide services so children and families have opportunities to lead productive lives.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Provider of treatment foster care for children and youth with complex needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mother Hubbards Cupboard Inc and the most unlike its peers is Indiana Recovery Alliance 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 28 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 64 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 FORT ATKINSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL METHODS IN LEARNING EQUINE SKILLS INC ↗
- Who funds STOUGHTON FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS OF THE PIERCED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN WOMEN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Foster the Village Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY WIND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds RESTORED WASHBURN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CRAFTSMAN WITH CHARACTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHWABAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Recovery Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KANDU INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Florida 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Jpc Foundation · Asante Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · The Allstate Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Flowers Family 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, a single department, or state — 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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