· Public charity
Fond Du Lac Area United Way Inc
To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $253,008 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $276,162 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $23,154 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $236k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOLUTIONS CENTER | $36,500 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $34,916 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $29,917 |
| YMCA | $29,083 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $27,675 |
| YSCREEN AND DRUG FREE COMMUNITIES | $25,417 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $19,083 |
| FDL ADULT LITERACY SERVICES | $18,167 |
| ASTOP | $15,500 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $9,167 |
| UNITED WAY 2-1-1 | $7,583 |
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 (FY17–23, $775k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $313k · revenue +156%
- SCSOLUTIONS CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $312k · revenue +95%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC7× · 2017–2023 · $215k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CICOVEY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +90%
- AAAlzheimer's Associationone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
Creating a better community by promoting philanthropy, awarding effective grants, and providing leadership on important community issues today and forever.
Fcdcs mission is to nurture childrens early learning through play.
The mission of envision greater fond du lac foundation, inc. is to inspire our community to work in partnership and cultivate a vibrant economic future.
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.
Providing supplemental healthy food options and education for families in need in fond du lac county
To establish a diverse, prosperous and healthy district that is the social, commercial and cultural heart of the community.
We are a human service organization that empowers adults and youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities to become independent and integrated into the community through advocacy, education, training and support.
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
Family service of lake county provides counseling, education, and support services to strenghten individuals and families in need to succeed in school, at work, in relationships, and within our community.
To find du lac humane society is dedicated to providing humane care and treatment to all animals needing protection, and to enhance the lives of animals and people through education, adoption, and compassion.
To prevent child abuse and strengthen families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Fond Du Lac Inc and the most unlike its peers is Astop Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
- Who funds ASTOP INC ↗
- Who funds BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC ADULT LITERACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF FDL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF SHEBOYGAN INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF FOND DU LAC CO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FOND DU LAC SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COVEY 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: Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Michels Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Sadoff Family Foundation · Grande Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc
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 United Way 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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