· Private foundation
Garton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATI | $6,500 |
| ELKHART LAKE GLENBEULAH FOUNDATION | $4,445 |
| EL-G EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,250 |
| PARTNERS FOR COMMUNICATION DEV | $3,500 |
| SUMMIT PLAYERS THEATRE | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BROUGHTON SHEBOYGAN MARS | $3,000 |
| BOOKWORM GARDENS | $3,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN CO INTERFAITH ORG | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LAKESHORE CHORALE | $3,000 |
| EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN | $3,000 |
| ELKART LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,742 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATIONS HEALTH AND WHOLENESS | $2,500 |
| HMONG MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 14 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $42k · revenue +368%
- BGBOOKWORM GARDENS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +94%
- SCSheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- VGVIRGINIA GARTON SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AMA MILLION DREAMZ INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +278%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WIone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
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.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
None
Provide a collaborative talent development system within the region.
Our mission is to provide efficient, progressive financial services and products to our owner-members in agreement with credit union philosophy
The mission of the sheboygan county economic development corporation (scedc), a countywide private/public partnership, is to lead economic development efforts to improve the economic well-being and long-term prosperity of the businesses,…
Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.
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…
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 64 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PLAYERS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds REINS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN OF THE HEART-GREATER LACROSSE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BROUGHTON ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION DREAMZ INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Recovery Community Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Dogs to Dog Tags Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INTERFAITH ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Garton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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