· Private foundation
Fritz Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
- $250k+1 grant · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW FOUNDATION | $277,320 |
| SOUTHWEST TECH FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $53,367 |
| UW PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION | $49,760 |
| ST ANDREW THOMAS CHURCH | $15,000 |
| FAMILY ADVOCATES | $12,500 |
| MERCY ONE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HILLS & DALES FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION ANDY NORTH & FRIENDS CANCER FUND | $5,000 |
| DICKEYVILLE PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ADVANCE SHULLSBURG INC | $3,334 |
| FRIENDS OF POTOSI WI INC | $2,500 |
| POTOSI FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| BENTON LIBRARY MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 12 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +21%
- PFPOTOSI FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +93% · 41% of their budget
- FAFAMILY ADVOCATES INC3× · 2022–2025 · $36k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TSTHE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue -44%
- HHHICKORY HILL PARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +27%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Advance dermatological medicine
Preserve and enhance the Wisconsin State Fair Park and support agriculture education and arts programming tied to the fair.
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.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
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.
To attract businesses to locate in madison county, iowa
The mission of the greater beloit economic development corporation ("corporation") is to foster investment and job growth in the economy thereby improving the quality of life, educational attainment, housing availability and prosperity for…
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Driver Opera House Restoration Inc and the most unlike its peers is Advance Shullsburg Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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 92 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 WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POTOSI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dickeyville Park Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds POTOSI FINE ARTS CLUB ↗
- Who funds ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S ↗
- Who funds THE DRIVER OPERA HOUSE RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds DICKEYVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
- Who funds Advance Shullsburg 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Dubuque Racing Association Ltd · Heartland Charitable Trust · Ann & Leo Stoll Jr Charitable Trust · Ay McDonald Charitable Foundation · Dupaco RW Hoefer Foundation · James B & Melita a McDonough Foundation · Kaiser Family Foundation Corporation · Dupaco Community Credit Union · Flynn Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Fritz 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.