· Public charity
Fond Du Lac Area Foundation
Creating a better community by promoting philanthropy, awarding effective grants, and providing leadership on important community issues today and forever.
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.
The 53 grants below total $2,269,620 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,872,349 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $602,729 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $514k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FDL COUNTY | $500,000 |
| ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY | $229,743 |
| CITY OF BEAVER DAM | $190,000 |
| FDL YMCA | $155,762 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| THE SALESIANUM TRUST | $100,000 |
| CITY OF WAUPUN | $62,500 |
| FDL COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $60,218 |
| MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FDL | $55,000 |
| BLANDINE HOUSE | $50,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY | $44,774 |
| FDL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $36,908 |
| BEAVER DAM ROTARY CLUB | $33,340 |
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 (FY17–24, $833k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 15 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC8× · 2017–2024 · $532k · revenue +59%
- MPMORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $351k · revenue +131%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC7× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT OF HORICONone grant, 2022 · $961k
- CICARE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST INCone grant, 2023 · $118k
- HRHOLY REDEEMER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INCone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
Fond du lac lutheran home, as part of lutheran homes and health services, provides a christian-based innovative approach to aging through comprehensive services, programs, and communities.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
To receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.
Direct, promote, and support festivals and special events that showcase fond du lac and the surrounding communities, and also provide assistance to other area charitable organizations.
Dlwr's mission is to market fond du lac, waupun, and the broader lake winnebago region as the ideal destination for a wide range of the traveling public's needs. dlwr will serve as the liaison between the traveler and our region's lodging…
United Way uses its global reach and local presence to build stronger, more resilient communities where everyone can thrive. We work to improve the health, education, and economic mobility of every person in every community we serve.
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
To provide a place where people can experience and enjoy the quiet wild of nature. we want to inspire current and future generations to care for the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fond Du Lac Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fond Du Lac County Agricultural Society. 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 39 years old; the field is 22. 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
78 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 122 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Calvary Athletic Club Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL- FOND DU LAC COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds MT CALVARY FIRE DEPARTMENT AUXILIARY INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WOMEN IN RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF FOND DU LAC ↗
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: Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Grande Foundation · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Michels Family Foundation · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Fond Du Lac Area United Way Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Sadoff Family Foundation · Francis R & Ruth E Oberreich Foundation Corporation
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 Fond Du Lac Area Foundation 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.