· Private foundation
Francis R & Ruth E Oberreich Foundation Corporation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of FRANCIS R & RUTH E OBERREICH FOUNDATION CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KINGSTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| LION'S FOUNDATION | $8,840 |
| FOND DU LAC COUNTY | $8,500 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,640 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,600 |
| FONDY FOOD PANTRY | $5,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON SENIOR CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE BEACON HOUSE | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TRI-COUNTY AREA | $2,500 |
| SHOP WITH A COP | $2,500 |
| COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FOND DU LAC SYMPHONIC BAND | $2,500 |
| GREEN LAKE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC | $2,400 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- FFFONDY FOOD PANTRY3× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +77%
- TATHE ARC FOND DU LAC INC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
- GLGREEN LAKE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC INC3× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $17k
- COCITY OF FOND DU LACone grant, 2020 · $14k
- CCCROSSWAYS CAMPING MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $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.
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 wisconsin maritime museum connects all people with wisconsin's waterways, by engaging and educating the public about wisconsin's maritime history, wisconsin's world war ii submarines, uss cobia, and the great lakes. the wisconsin…
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Advance science-informed analysis and policy solutions that address wisconsin's greatest conservation challenges.
To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
The mission of envision greater fond du lac, inc. is to inspire our community to work in partnership and cultivate a vibrant economic future.
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Markesan Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 113 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 GREEN LAKE GREENWAYS ↗
- Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC SYMPHONIC BAND LTD ↗
- Who funds GREEN LAKE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BRANDON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CARE 4 U 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Michels Family Foundation · Grande Foundation · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Webster Foundation Inc · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · 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 Francis R & Ruth E Oberreich Foundation Corporation 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Francis R & Ruth E Oberreich Foundation Corporation?
Find your warmest path to Francis R & Ruth E Oberreich Foundation Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.