· Private foundation
Gering Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GROW COMMUNITY GARDEN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +76% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WTWINMAN TRAILS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $236k
- FOFESTIVAL OF TREES2× · 2020–2022 · $10k
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $2k
Funded once
- HYHOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +23%
- WNWAUSAU NORDIC SKI CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +45%
- AHASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +30%
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.
To protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
To provide recreational ski trail to area residents and to visitors to gogebic county, michigan. to provide cross country ski lessons and to hold other fitness conscious events during the year.
The mission of the west wisconsin land trust, inc. is to preserve western wisconsin's natural character by informing, facilitating, and partnering with private landowners, communities, and local governments to protect valuable land.
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
To preserve lands that protect our waters, landscapes and natural habitats in northeast wisconsin. ne wisconsin is critical to the health of the largest freshwater estuaries in the world-lake michigan's crucial wetlands.
We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.
Dedicated to working with land owners to protect conservation-worthy land and natural resources of southern wisconsin.
To leave ironman's legacy through philanthropy, volunteerism and grant making; by supporting various athletic, community, education, health, human services and public benefit non-profit organizations around the world.
We heal people, promote health, and strengthen communities.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
Extraordinary healthcare from the heart - one person at a time.vision: we will set the standard for community-based healthcare that improves the health and quality of life of the people we serve.
To aid in the protection of natural, agricultural and scenic land resources. the organization holds and monitors land conservation easements, including parks & trails. they also provide expert consulting services to landowners, government…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 WINMAN TRAILS INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAUSAU NORDIC SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds EVEREST GRIDIRON INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN 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: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gering Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gering Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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