Wisconsin · Private foundation
Garton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $433k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Garton Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $72k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $64k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $57k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $51k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $47k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $45k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc | $41,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Bookworm Gardens Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Summit Players Theatre | $12,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Lakeshore Chorale Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Reins Inc | $9,760 | 4 | 1% |
| Down Syndrome Association of Children of the Heart-Greater Lacrosse Area Inc | $8,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Wi Shoreline Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sheboygan County Historical Research Centerinc | $6,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($140k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Garton Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Garton Family Foundation
- How much does Garton Family Foundation give?
- Garton Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $71,727 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Garton Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (10%).
- Who are Garton Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc ($42k), Bookworm Gardens Inc ($23k), Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ($16k).
- Does Garton Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Garton Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Garton Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Garton Family Foundation based?
- Garton Family Foundation is based in WI.
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