· Private foundation
Glendenning Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $95,000 |
| LA CROSSE AREA YMCA | $85,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY | $35,000 |
| LA CROSSE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S CENTER | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $26,500 |
| APTIV | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE | $22,000 |
| COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTION | $22,000 |
| FIRST LIGHT EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS GATEWAY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| WAFER | $2,500 |
| LA CROSSE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LCLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $787k · revenue +36%
- AIAPTIV INC7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +6%
- GRGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $172k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- HHHOPE HOSPICEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- RWROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -39%
- RRIVERFRONTone grant, 2017 · $14k
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 unite the community by developing resources to meet the community needs.
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
The mission of crow wing county united way inc. is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community. it does this each day through the partnerships created throughout the communities it serves. whether it is board members,…
To be a progressive business resource, growing companies and developing leaders through collaboration, advocacy, information, and services that benefit current and future businesses.
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
United Way uses its global reach and local presence to build stronger, more resilient communities where everyone can thrive. We work to improve the health, education, and economic mobility of every person in every community we serve.
United way's mission is to improve lives.
The mission of united way st. croix & red cedar valleys is to fight for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in western wisconsin.
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 unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
The purpose of the corporation shall be to actively facilitate and promote economic development and business retention in the la crosse area. this shall be accomplished by focusing on the "triad of development": the attraction of industry,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Rivers United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Northwoods Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 33 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 La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF LA CROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds COULEE COUNCIL ON ADDICTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds APTIV INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LA CRESCENT AREA EVENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAFER INC ↗
- Who funds LA CROSSE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FLORIDA 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: La Crosse Community Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · Alm Charities Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214 · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Ed and Nancy Reinhart Hengel Family Foundation Inc · June Onefive 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 Glendenning Family 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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