· Private foundation
Frank & Susan Huettner Educ Fd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE | $12,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE | $11,500 |
| CVTC - CHIPPEWA VALLEY TECH COLLEGE | $7,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-DULUTH | $3,000 |
| ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $3,000 |
| VITERBO UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-RIVER FALLS | $2,900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-GREEN BAY | $2,500 |
| STOUT UNIVERSITY | $2,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT | $2,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $1,500 |
| NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,400 |
| NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
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
- VUVITERBO UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +8%
- SOST OLAF COLLEGE3× · 2018–2021 · $9k · revenue +17%
- FVFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of St Thomasgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +69%
- WTWESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ICItasca Community College Foundationone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -20%
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 mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
Mission statement: an inclusive, catholic, and diocesan community of learners, st. ambrose university empowers all ambrosians to act courageously, to seek wisdom through faith and reason, to work for justice, and to lead lives of service.…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Lutheran College Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Wisconsin-Superior Alumni Assoc. 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 61 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 60 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 University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-SUPERIOR ALUMNI ASSOC ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds Itasca Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds BETHANY LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Culver's Foundation Inc · Council of Independent Colleges · Ibm International Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · United Way Worldwide · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Communitygiving · The Casper Foundation · The Eagle Foundation · Delta Dental of Wisconsin 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 & Susan Huettner Educ Fd 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.