· Private foundation
Gerald & Dorothy Volm 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of GERALD & DOROTHY VOLM FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF LANGLADE COUNTY | $15,000 |
| ASCEND CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY | $5,000 |
| PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $4,500 |
| IMA HELPS | $2,500 |
| IDAHO FALLS LACROSSE CLUB INC | $2,500 |
| RED ROBIN SCHOLARSHIP FDN INC | $2,000 |
| PALM DESERT COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN | $2,000 |
| ST PETERS LUTHERAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| WILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE | $1,500 |
| PEBBLE CREEK SKI PATROL | $1,500 |
| THE GIVING TREE OF LANGLADE COUNTY | $1,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $500 |
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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- AOANTIGO OPTIMIST CLUB - RED ROBIN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +227%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC4× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +81%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- AGANTIGO GRIDIRON CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +35%
- AHANTIGO HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- ACANTIGO COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
To enrich and transform the lives of young people, especially those who need us most.
The mission of the boys & girls clubs of west central missouri is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as caring and productive citizens.
This club was organized to promote a spirit of cooperation amoung the members, with particular interest on promotion of organized youth sporting activities
Inspire and enable young people, including those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
The boys & girls club of carbon county was organized to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to become productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive and caring citizens.
The mission of the organization is to provide an environment for langlade county youth to have an enjoyable, safe, team-oriented, and community based experience while learning how to respect and play the game of baseball. the organization…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Antigo Gridiron Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 38 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
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 United Way of Langlade County Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTIGO OPTIMIST CLUB - RED ROBIN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Langlade County Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CENTER COURT CLUB INC CENTER COURT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MED ACCESS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Renegade Helmet Club CO Brown Armstrong Accountancy Corporat ↗
- Who funds ANTIGO GRIDIRON CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAMA'S HOUSE MINISTRIES FKA HEARTBEAT AT 22 ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS HOUSE OF HOPE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS TRACTOR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Acts 18 Ministry Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BRAILLE WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS 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: Robert a & Cynthia L Hilger Foundation · Elwyn Remington Foundation · Charles George Resch II Memorial Foundation Inc · Andy L & Leone Sheldon Charitable Tr · Covantage Credit Union · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Gerald & Dorothy Volm 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.
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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