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Fritz Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$548k
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$277k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$228kPhilanthropy$105kScience & Tech$82kHealth$64kRecreation & Sports$53kReligion$48kCrime & Legal$36kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $128k
  • $250k+1 grant · $277k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BENTON LIBRARY MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY$2,500
FRIENDS OF POTOSI WI INC$2,500
TWO BY TWO CHARACTER DEV$2,500
POTOSI FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HICKORY HILL PARK FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FUND: $21k → 6%UW FOUNDATION ANDY NORTH & FRIENDS CANCER FUND: $5k → 10%SOUTHWEST TECH FOUNDATION: $75k → 13%FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WI: $11k → 17%UW CARBONE CANCER CENTER: $5k → 10%UW FOUNDATION ANDY NORTH & FRIENDS CANCER FUND: $5k → 10%MERCY ONE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%UW PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%MERCY ONE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION: $39k → 13%MERCY ONE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION: $35k → 13%MERCY ONE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%UW FOUNDATION: $277k → 10%FAMILY ADVOCATES: $14k → 13%NATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM: $10k → 11%UW-FOUNDATION: $270k → 10%FAMILY ADVOCATES: $13k → 13%HILLS & DALES FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%UW FOUNDATION: $263k → 10%UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%HILLS & DALES FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%UW-FOUNDATION: $260k → 10%FAMILY ADVOCATES: $10k → 13%STEEPLE SQUARE: $5k → 11%VARSITY COLLECTIVE: $53k → 10%HILLS & DALES FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%VARSITY COLLECTIVE: $40k → 10%NATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM: $5k → 11%VARSITY COLLECTIVE: $25k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $5k → 11%GARDING AGAINST CANCER: $15k → 10%TWO BY TWO: $5k → 11%UW FOUNDATION ATHLETICS SOUTH END ZONE: $8k → 10%NATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 10%WI ATHLETICS: $8k → 10%POTOSI FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%POTOSI FOUNDATION: $35k → 13%POTOSI FOUNDATION: $28k → 13%POTOSI FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%POTOSI FOUNDATION: $19k → 13%ST ANDREW THOMAS CHURCH: $15k → 13%SS ANDREW THOMAS CHURCH: $14k → 13%SS ANDREW THOMAS CHURCH: $12k → 13%DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION OF POTOSI: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 35 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
43

Total granted

$1.9M
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+27%

Still filing today

46%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +21%
  • PF
    POTOSI FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +84% · 41% of their budget
  • FA
    FAMILY ADVOCATES INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $36k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue -44%
  • HH
    HICKORY HILL PARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +27%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
2
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

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…

Environment
3
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc

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…

Education
4
Downtown Madison Inc

Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.

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5
Wisconsin Dermatological Society Inc

Advance dermatological medicine

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6
Wisconsin State Fair Park Foundation

Preserve and enhance the Wisconsin State Fair Park and support agriculture education and arts programming tied to the fair.

Youth Development
7
Wisconsin Association of Lakes Inc

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.

Environment
8
Wisconsin Wildlife Federation Inc

The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.

Environment
9
Landmark Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
10
Madison County Development Group

To attract businesses to locate in madison county, iowa

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11
The Greater Beloit Economic Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
12
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Driver Opera House Restoration Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,076,320 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONTHE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $134,120 · EducationTHE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC+2 more: $10,100 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $118,367 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHWEST TECH FOUNDATION: $75,500 · OtherSOUTHWEST TECH FOUNDATIONMERCY ONE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherMERCY ONE FOUNDATIONFAMILY ADVOCATES INC: $36,000 · OtherFAMILY ADVOCATES INCSS ANDREW THOMAS CHURCH: $27,000 · OtherHICKORY HILL PARK FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherHILLS & DALES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Other+66 more: $208,700 · Other+66 morePOTOSI FOUNDATION INC: $157,225 · Arts & CulturePOTOSI FOU…Dubuque County Historical Society: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDubuque Co…ASHLEY FOR THE ARTS: $9,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $9,750 · Arts & CultureTHE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $21,300 · Public BenefitDickeyville Park Foundation Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S: $9,250 · Community ImprovementAdvance Shullsburg Inc: $3,334 · Community ImprovementDICKEYVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $6,000 · HealthGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthPOTOSI RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · Health
Education$1,220,540Other$545,567Arts & Culture$196,475Public Benefit$21,300Recreation & Sports$20,000Community Improvement$12,584Health$11,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $1,076,320 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPOTOSI FOUNDATION INC: $157,225 over 8y, 41% of budgetTHE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $134,120 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY ADVOCATES INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SILVER LINING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $21,300 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDickeyville Park Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLEY FOR THE ARTS: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST MARY'S: $9,250 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDICKEYVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $6,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE DRIVER OPERA HOUSE RESTORATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC: $5,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN BADGER CAMP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJO DAVIESS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GALENA FOUNDATION INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBELL TOWER PRODUCTIONS: $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBADGERS UNITED INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOTOSI RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWISCONSIN BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN MASONIC FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN BADGER STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Dubuque County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds Dickeyville Park Foundation Inc ↗
  • 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 DICKEYVILLE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DRIVER OPERA HOUSE RESTORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ↗
  • Who funds Advance Shullsburg Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Alliant Energy Founda…Dubuque Racing Associ…Heartland Charitable …Ann & Leo Stoll Jr Ch…Ay McDonald Charitabl…Dupaco RW Hoefer Foun…James B & Melita a Mc…Kaiser Family Foundat…Dupaco Community Cred…Flynn Family Foundati…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fritz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fritz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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