· Private foundation
George Kress Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k75 grants · $247k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $611k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $780k
- $250k+9 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BAY BEACH INC | $500,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC | $500,000 |
| CP INC | $262,500 |
| BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC | $250,000 |
| GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDENS | $250,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY | $250,000 |
| ON BROADWAY INC | $250,000 |
| THE GATEWAY COLLECTIVE | $100,000 |
| ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN | $100,000 |
| THE GATEWAY COLLECTIVE | $100,000 |
| CURATIVE CONNECTIONS | $80,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY | $75,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC | $75,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $654k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those 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 +23% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $905k 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
- DCDOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC3× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +19% · 27% of their budget
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +117%- GBGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TLTHE LYTE COLLECTIVEone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -45%
- FOFRIENDS OF BAY BEACH WILDLIFE SANCTUARYone grant, 2019 · $125k
- SVSAUDER VILLAGEone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +13%
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.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
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…
To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Advance science-informed analysis and policy solutions that address wisconsin's greatest conservation challenges.
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.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
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.
The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum 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 35 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
196 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 196 of the 370 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds Door County YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRAIN CENTER OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ON BROADWAY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LYTE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 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: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · Schreiber Foods 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 George Kress 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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