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George Kress Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
132
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$3.9MArts & Culture$3.6MHealth$3.2MHuman Services$2.4MRecreation & Sports$1.6MHousing & Shelter$1.5MEnvironment$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k75 grants · $247k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $611k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $780k
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.0M
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ON BROADWAY INC$250,000
BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY$250,000
GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDENS$250,000
NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM 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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LYTE COLLECTIVE: $200k → 14%BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE: $500 → 16%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $1k → 15%DOWNERS GROVE AREA FISH INC: $3k → 7%VALLEY KID'S FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 7%VALLEY KID'S FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 7%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $6k → 10%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $6k → 10%JOURNEY TO ADULT SUCCESS: $100k → 10%JOURNEY TO ADULT SUCCESS: $3k → 10%MYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN: $5k → 10%FORGET ME NOT FUND INC: $250 → 10%FOSTER THE VILLAGE INC: $25k → 10%FOSTER THE VILLAGE INC: $10k → 10%DEPERE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $3k → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $1k → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $1k → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $1k → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $500 → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $500 → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $250 → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $250 → 10%UNITY HOSPICE: $250 → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $50k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES: $31k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI: $30k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $30k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $25k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $20k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $20k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $20k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $20k → 10%YWCA OF GREATER GREEN BAY INC: $10k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $10k → 10%MYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN: $5k → 10%MYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN: $5k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $4k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $3k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $2k → 10%MYTEAM TRIUMPH: $2k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
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SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
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DC
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FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 152 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152
195

Total granted

$19M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+16%

Still filing today

66%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $905k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DC
    DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +19% · 27% of their budget
  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +117%
  • GB
    GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LYTE COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -45%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BAY BEACH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2019 · $125k
  • SV
    SAUDER VILLAGE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +13%
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
United Way of Wisconsin Inc

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…

Philanthropy
2
Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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3
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
4
One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

—
5
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
6
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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7
West Bend Community Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
8
Wisconsin's Green Fire Incorporated

Advance science-informed analysis and policy solutions that address wisconsin's greatest conservation challenges.

Environment
9
Door County Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
10
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation

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…

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11
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
12
Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

196 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. 196 of the 370 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
192/196
Grantees still filing
121/196
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF BAY BEACH INC: $1,000,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BAY BEACH INCFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC: $908,700 · OtherFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INCTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $832,000 · OtherTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INCSYBLE HOPP SCHOOL: $750,000 · OtherSYBLE HOPP SCHOOLGREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $607,500 · OtherPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500,000 · Other+136 more: $6,724,850 · Other+136 moreDOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureDOOR COUNTY MAR…THE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $430,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEVILLE PUB…CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC: $317,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSE…PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePENINSULA SCHOO…PENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePENINSULA PLAYE…+8 more: $213,366 · Arts & Culture+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,387,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF W…Door County YMCA INC: $600,000 · EducationDoor County YMC…UW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $189,875 · EducationUW-STOUT FOUNDA…NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $119,000 · EducationDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Education+11 more: $556,500 · Education+11 moreGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,082,500 · EnvironmentBAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $177,000 · EnvironmentTREES FOR TOMORROW INC: $54,180 · EnvironmentFOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $50,000 · Environment+3 more: $28,940 · EnvironmentGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $685,977 · PhilanthropyBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY: $306,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $60,700 · Philanthropy+6 more: $97,500 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $203,500 · Human ServicesTHE LYTE COLLECTIVE: $200,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC: $183,500 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HOUSE INC: $147,500 · Human ServicesENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC: $129,500 · Human ServicesJOURNEY TO ADULT SUCCESS INC: $102,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH AND FAM INC: $75,000 · Human Services+4 more: $73,000 · Human ServicesCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC: $750,000 · Employment
Other$11,823,050Arts & Culture$2,960,366Education$2,952,375Environment$1,392,620Philanthropy$1,150,177Human Services$1,114,500Employment$750,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,387,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $1,082,500 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetFOUNDATIONS HEALTH & WHOLENESS INC: $908,700 over 6y, 22% of budgetTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $832,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetCURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC: $750,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $685,977 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $607,500 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetDoor County YMCA INC: $600,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $430,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC: $380,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC: $317,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetBROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY: $306,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $305,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBRAIN CENTER OF GREEN BAY INC: $301,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetPENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC: $250,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPENINSULA PLAYERS THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC: $203,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LYTE COLLECTIVE: $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE GATEWAY COLLECTIVE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUW-STOUT FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $189,875 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC: $183,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $177,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC: $147,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC: $129,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC: $129,200 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $119,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC: $116,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetNEW ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $115,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJOURNEY TO ADULT SUCCESS INC: $102,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSAUDER VILLAGE: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCUP O JOY MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetBROWN COUNTY CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $94,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $90,250 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWAUSAU YMCA FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetCOLLEGEREADY INC: $90,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetHOWE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $83,500 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetACHIEVE BROWN COUNTY INC: $77,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetFRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH AND FAM INC: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetASPIRO INC: $66,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Pencil Box Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetJACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC: $60,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRAWHIDE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Greater Green Bay Com…Wisconsin Public Serv…Green Bay Packers Fou…John and Engrid Meng …K C Stock Foundation …Schneider National Fo…Cornerstone Foundatio…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Community Foundation …Weyers Family Foundat…Little Rapids Corpora…Schreiber Foods Found…
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation IncWI136.9× affinity86 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 George Kress Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Kress Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
49report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to George Kress Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to George Kress Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 370 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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