· Private foundation
Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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: 48% of FRANK G & FRIEDA K BROTZ FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $734k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEILL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (HSHS) | $125,000 |
| LAKESHORE COLLEGE FORMERLY LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE) | $100,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE | $100,000 |
| CAMP EVERGREEN | $100,000 |
| DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LAKESHORE REGIONAL CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC | $100,000 |
| LAKELAND UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CHEESE CAPITAL WINTER PARK INC DBA NUTT HILL | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $50,000 |
| DOGS2DOGTAGS INC | $50,000 |
| A MILLION DREAMZ | $50,000 |
| ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $796k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% 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.
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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $564k 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
- WCWEILL CENTER FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +281%
- LHLUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER SHEBOYGAN AREA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $470k · revenue +71%
- SCSheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $442k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SASHEBOYGAN AREA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $150k
- FOFRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $130k
- OCOOSTBURG CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $120k
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.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
Our mission is to provide efficient, progressive financial services and products to our owner-members in agreement with credit union philosophy
To provide and operate a retirement home, health care center, and related services in the greater sheboygan area for elderly and physically handicapped adults, which shall enhance, honor and preserve the dignity of the individual, and…
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
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.
Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in…
In partnership with the christian community, sheboygan county christian school uses a biblical perspective to integrate academic excellence with christ-centered learning, preparing students' hearts and minds for service in god's world.
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.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
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.
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Harbor of Sheboygan County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dynamic Catholic Institute. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
97 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. 97 of the 204 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEILL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER SHEBOYGAN AREA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN YOUTH SAILING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BROUGHTON ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Dogs to Dog Tags Inc ↗
- Who funds SILVER LAKE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds SAILING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF SHEBOYGAN INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION DREAMZ INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S HAND INC ↗
- Who funds 1907 Club ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE 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: Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Garton Family Foundation · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West 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 Frank G & Frieda K Brotz 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 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.