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Fond Du Lac Area Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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.

$3.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$443k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.5MPublic Benefit$1.8MHuman Services$1.4MHealth$1.2MReligion$967kRecreation & Sports$592kArts & Culture$552kPhilanthropy$525kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 65 grants below total $2,476,495, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,261,593 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $785,098 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $776k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $875k
  • $250k+2 grants · $736k
$16,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF BEAVER DAM$442,627
ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY$293,755
HOLY FAMILY$158,387
CITY OF FOND DU LAC$122,288
FDL COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$92,711
GRATITUDE CLUB$80,204
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FDL$72,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL INC$70,000
FDL YMCA$66,182
BEAVER DAM ROTARY CLUB$57,742
FDL SCHOOL DISTRICT$55,244
MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION$50,000
YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY$50,000
THELMA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$43,849
THE ARC OF FDL$38,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY CONNECT OF WISCONSIN INC: $20k → 12%DIVERSE OPTIONS: $25k → 9%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL INC: $70k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 11%BO'S HEAVENLY CLUBHOUSE: $13k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 11%YMCA OF DODGE COUNTY: $50k → 9%PILLAR & VINE: $8k → 9%FDL YMCA: $156k → 9%FDL YMCA: $85k → 9%FDL YMCA: $66k → 9%FDL YMCA: $58k → 9%FDL YMCA: $57k → 9%FDL YMCA: $49k → 9%FDL YMCA: $49k → 9%FDL YMCA: $41k → 9%FDL YMCA: $38k → 9%ADVOCAP HEAD START: $30k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $27k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $22k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $20k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $17k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $17k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $16k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $15k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $15k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $14k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $13k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $12k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $12k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $11k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 9%SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT: $10k → 9%FDL AREA WOMEN'S FUND: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 71 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
49

Total granted

$12M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

65%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $467k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $598k · revenue +59%
  • MP
    MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $401k · revenue +131%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $278k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HORICON
    one grant, 2022 · $961k
  • HR
    HOLY REDEEMER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • US
    UNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fond Du Lac Lutheran Home Inc

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.

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2
Door County Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
3
Lake Area Free Clinic Inc

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.

Health
4
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.

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5
Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

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…

Environment
6
Door County Community Foundation Inc

To receive and administer charitable endowment funds, to award grants to social, educational, scientific, religious and other charitable organizations in door county, wisconsin.

Philanthropy
7
Help of Door County Inc

The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.

Health
8
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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9
Women's Care Center Duluth Inc

To love, serve, and support the women, children and families in our community before, during and after pregnancy, reaching the most vulnerable and in need. by providing self-sufficiency training and education to pregnant women and new…

Human Services
10
Dodge County Humane Society Inc

Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.

Animals
11
Lutheran Counseling and Family Services

Lutheran counseling and family services of wisconsin provides faith-based mental health counseling, family life education and adoption services.

Human Services
12
United Way of Langlade County Inc

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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Fond Du Lac Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 141 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/90
Grantees still filing
45/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARYS SPRINGS ACADEMY: $1,324,706 · OtherST MARYS SPRINGS ACADEMYCITY OF BEAVER DAM: $973,973 · OtherCITY OF BEAVER DAMSCHOOL DISTRICT OF HORICON: $960,553 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF HORICONFOND DU LAC DEPARTMENT OF SENIOR SERVICES: $771,894 · OtherFOND DU LAC DEPARTMENT OF SENIOR SERVICESFOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $673,733 · OtherFOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICTHOLY FAMILY PARISH: $604,838 · OtherHOLY FAMILY PARISHMORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $400,726 · Other+97 more: $5,518,197 · Other+97 moreYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC: $598,043 · Human ServicesFOND DU LAC AREA WOMEN'S FUND INC: $133,720 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS CENTER INC: $114,967 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Human Services+6 more: $120,337 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC: $278,486 · Arts & CultureTHELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $174,021 · Arts & CultureFOND DU LAC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $59,773 · Arts & CultureFDL CT INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY: $479,350 · AnimalsSANDI PAWS RESCUE INC: $43,500 · Animals+2 more: $10,680 · AnimalsMt Calvary Athletic Club Inc: $350,000 · PhilanthropyFOND DU LAC AREA UNITED WAY INC: $162,854 · PhilanthropySALUTE THE TROOPS INC: $19,050 · PhilanthropyENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC FOUNDATION INC: $104,842 · EducationMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: $103,262 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $85,000 · EducationMarquette University: $65,700 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $46,000 · EducationAGC WI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationCENTRAL WISCONSIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · Education+5 more: $55,682 · EducationCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC: $426,726 · Religion+1 more: $10,000 · Religion
Other$11,228,620Human Services$1,087,067Arts & Culture$538,280Animals$533,530Philanthropy$531,904Education$510,486Religion$436,726

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC: $598,043 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetFOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY: $479,350 over 9y, 15% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC: $426,726 over 4y, 29% of budgetMORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $400,726 over 8y, 10% of budgetMt Calvary Athletic Club Inc: $350,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL- FOND DU LAC COUNTY: $328,518 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC: $278,486 over 7y, 12% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC: $273,122 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $238,565 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetMT CALVARY FIRE DEPARTMENT AUXILIARY INC: $186,543 over 3y, 48% of budgetFONDY FOOD PANTRY: $181,941 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE ARC FOND DU LAC INC: $175,302 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $174,021 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetFOND DU LAC AREA UNITED WAY INC: $162,854 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF WOMEN IN RECOVERY INC: $138,500 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetFOND DU LAC ROTARY CLUB: $137,453 over 5y, 62% of budgetFOND DU LAC AREA WOMEN'S FUND INC: $133,720 over 8y, 25% of budgetSOLUTIONS CENTER INC: $114,967 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC FOUNDATION INC: $104,842 over 3y, 13% of budgetMARIAN UNIVERSITY INC: $103,262 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $102,841 over 3y, 13% of budgetBROOKE INDUSTRIES INC: $100,922 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC: $88,875 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INCORPORATED: $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF FOND DU LAC: $73,335 over 3y, 25% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetBlandine House Inc: $66,200 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMarquette University: $65,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOND DU LAC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $59,773 over 2y, 41% of budgetFOND DU LAC SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $57,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $51,280 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF DODGE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION INC: $47,920 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSANDI PAWS RESCUE INC: $43,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMARSH HAVEN NATURE CENTER INC: $43,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF FDL COUNTY INC: $42,500 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetFOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION: $42,238 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSt Charles Cemetery Association: $39,729 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE INC: $39,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC: $30,646 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF FOND DU LAC CO INC: $30,200 over 4y, 11% of budgetPREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTER OF DODGE COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFONDY YOUTH BASEBALL INC: $25,475 over 2y, 15% of budgetENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC INC: $25,339 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,337 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIVERSE OPTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAGC WI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
  • Who funds FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
  • Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MT CALVARY FIRE DEPARTMENT AUXILIARY INC ↗
  • Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
  • Who funds THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WOMEN IN RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOND DU LAC ROTARY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
  • 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds GRATITUDE CLUB INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mid-States Aluminum F…Grande FoundationMike Shannon Automoti…Michels Family Founda…Agnesian Healthcare I…Kevin and Connie Mich…Alliant Energy Founda…Jf Ahern Co FoundationFond Du Lac Area Unit…Green Bay Packers Fou…Sadoff Family Foundat…Francis R & Ruth E Ob…
Mid-States Aluminum Foundation IncWI70.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fond Du Lac Area Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fond Du Lac Area Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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