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Gordon Flesch Charitable 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.

$190k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
41
Grants FY2024
37
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
33 to 47
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$42k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving41$190k98%
FY202337$150k100%
FY202238$156k100%
FY202133$98k100%
FY202047$102kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$173kHuman Services$140kFood & Nutrition$94kYouth Development$74kHousing & Shelter$65kEducation$29kEmployment$27kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 142 grantees
All grantees of Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ecker Center for Behavioral Health Inc$10,00020%
Casa Guadalupe Education Center Inc$8,00012%
Open Arms Christian Ministries Inc$6,00010%
Try Pie$5,00012%
Envision Unlimited$5,00010%
Community Clothes Closet$5,00010%
Linn Area Education Associations Community Foundation Inc$5,00014%
Pads to Hope Dba-Journeys the Road Home$5,00010%
Badger Childhood Cancer Network Inc$5,00013%
Occupaws Guide Dog Association$5,00011%
Eisenhower Center Inc$5,00010%
Blackhawk Technical College Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Compassionate Home Health Care LLC$5,000117%
Eight Days of Hope Inc$5,00010%
The 180 Zone$5,00010%
Parke County Resource Center$5,000115%
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc$5,00010%
Exceptional Equestrians Company$5,00011%
Audio & Braille Literacy Enhancement Inc$5,00011%
Mr Bobs Under the Bridge Inc$5,00013%
The Village Diaper Bank Inc$5,00011%
Riverview Gardens Inc$5,00010%
Nami Brown County Inc$5,0001n/a
Cornerstone of Hope Inc$5,00010%
Between Friends Food Pantry of Sugar Grove$5,00014%
McCrossan Boys Ranch$5,00010%
Bikes for Kids Wisconsin Inc$5,00014%
Headsup Fox Cities Corp$5,00011%
Reach Counseling Services Inc$5,00010%
Habitat for Humanity of Se Ohio$5,00010%
Southside Hope Community Development Corporation Inc$5,00013%
Common Threads Family Resource Center$5,00010%
Furniture Mission of South Dakota$5,00011%
Family Mentor Foundation$5,00012%
Lazarus House$5,00010%
Hometown Heroes Inc$5,00010%
Horizons Unlimited of Palo Alto County Inc$5,00010%
Community Housing Initiatives Inc$5,00010%
Rock Rapids United Fund$5,0001n/a
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$5,00010%
Kandu Industries Inc$5,00010%
Healing Hands Outreach Center Inc$5,00012%
United Way of North Central Iowa$5,00011%
Soar Fox Cities Inc$5,00011%
Reaching the Nations International$5,00013%
Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc$5,0001n/a
Pillars Inc$5,0001n/a
Maydm Inc$5,00011%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of McHenry County Inc$5,00011%
Rebuilding Together Muscatine County Inc$5,00014%
Fairfield Center for Independence Inc$5,00010%
Call to Freedom$5,00010%
Covey Inc$5,00010%
Foundations Health & Wholeness Inc$5,00010%
Neighborhood Food Pantries$5,00010%
Journey 21 Inc$5,00010%
Kenneth Butler Memorial Soup Kitchen Inc$4,50011%
The Cooper House Inc$4,20011%
Brittany Corcoran Scholarship Fund$4,0001n/a
Grow It Forward Inc$4,00010%
North Star Community Services Inc$4,00010%
Bloomington Pets Alive Inc$4,00010%
Family Health Partnership Clinic$4,00010%
Wabash Center Inc$4,00010%
Old Irving Park Community Clinic$4,00010%
Adaptive Sports Connection Corder$3,60011%
Home of the Sparrow Inc$3,50010%
Project Home Inc$3,50010%
Loaves & Fishes Community Services$3,50010%
Wisconsibs Inc$3,50012%
Humane Society of Indianapolis$3,50010%
Hardbarger Impact Ministries$3,5001n/a
Million Meal Movement Inc$3,50011%
Pointer Pantry$3,5001n/a
The Building for Kids Inc$3,50010%
Band of Blue Inc$3,5001n/a
My Happy Place Inc$3,50013%
Pathways Inc$3,43010%
Job Foundation$3,00011%
Pearls for Teen Girls Inc$3,00010%
Girls on the Run of Southeastern Wisconsin Inc$3,00010%
The Aly Wolff Foundation Inc$3,00014%
Sans Souci Inc$3,00010%
Harbor House Domestic Abuse Programs Inc$3,00010%
Janus Developmental Services$3,00010%
Wabash Independent Living & Learning Center Inc$3,00011%
Food for Greater Elgin Inc$2,50010%
Care Net Pregnancy Center of Milwaukee Inc$2,50010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Indiana$2,50011%
Run the Race Club$2,50012%
Spike the Stigma Mend the Mind$2,5001n/a
Bigger Than Inc$2,5001n/a
Westside Free Store Ministries$2,50013%
Rock House Kids$2,50010%
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People$2,50010%
Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation$2,50010%
Star House$2,50010%
Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society Inc$2,50010%
Rogers Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$2,50010%
East Shore Industries Inc$2,50010%
Goebel Family Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Live Real Foundation$2,5001n/a
Waukesha County Community Dental Clinic Inc$2,50010%
Operation North Pole Inc$2,50011%
Mutual Ground Inc$2,50010%
Knox Blocks Foundation$2,50011%
South Milwaukee Human Concerns Inc$2,50011%
Cedar Valley Hospice Inc$2,50010%
Connections for the Homeless Inc$2,50010%
Bike Lady Inc$2,3001n/a
Stone Belt Arc Inc$2,00010%
Bridges Community Action Partnership$2,00010%
Bernie's Book Bank$2,00010%
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$2,0001n/a
Mid-Ohio Foodbank$2,00010%
Exploit No More Inc$2,00011%
Cafe on Vine$2,00011%
Lotus Education and Arts Foundation Inc$2,00011%
Northeast Iowa Food Bank$2,00010%
The Friendship Circle Inc$2,00010%
Zachariah's Acres Inc$2,00010%
Dreams on Horseback$2,00010%
The Sewing Machine Project Inc$2,0001n/a
Food Pantry of Waukesha County Inc$2,00010%
West Suburban Community Pantry Inc$2,00010%
Denver Sunset Home$1,50010%
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc$1,50010%
The Loving Care Hospice Inc$1,20010%
Cedar Valley Friends of the Family Inc$1,20010%
Discovery Living Inc$1,00010%
Project Help Inc$1,00010%
Racine County Project Emergency Inc$1,00010%
The Workshop$1,00010%
St Joseph Food Program Inc$1,00010%
Paul's Pantry Inc$1,00010%
North Iowa Transition and Employment Services Inc$1,00010%
Readlyn EMS Association Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Hilliard Food Pantry Plus$1,00010%
Porchlight Inc$1,00010%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$1,00010%
Comforting Hearts All-Inclusive Playground Inc$1,0001n/a
Gray Warriors$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEcker Center for Behavioral Health Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCasa Guadalupe Education Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOpen Arms Christian Ministries Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTry Pie: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEnvision Unlimited: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Clothes Closet: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLinn Area Education Associations Community Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPads to Hope Dba-Journeys the Road Home: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBadger Childhood Cancer Network Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOccupaws Guide Dog Association: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEisenhower Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlackhawk Technical College Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCompassionate Home Health Care LLC: $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetEight Days of Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe 180 Zone: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetParke County Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetOshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetExceptional Equestrians Company: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAudio & Braille Literacy Enhancement Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMr Bobs Under the Bridge Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetThe Village Diaper Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRiverview Gardens Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornerstone of Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBetween Friends Food Pantry of Sugar Grove: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMcCrossan Boys Ranch: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBikes for Kids Wisconsin Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHeadsup Fox Cities Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetReach Counseling Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Se Ohio: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthside Hope Community Development Corporation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCommon Threads Family Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFurniture Mission of South Dakota: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFamily Mentor Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLazarus House: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHometown Heroes Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHorizons Unlimited of Palo Alto County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Housing Initiatives Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKandu Industries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Hands Outreach Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUnited Way of North Central Iowa: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSoar Fox Cities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetReaching the Nations International: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMaydm Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of McHenry County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRebuilding Together Muscatine County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFairfield Center for Independence Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCall to Freedom: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 124.

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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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI54.2× affinity33 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Lsb Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Bersted Foundation

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.

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About Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc reported 41 grants totaling $189,930 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Human Services (20%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ecker Center for Behavioral Health Inc ($10k), Casa Guadalupe Education Center Inc ($8k), Open Arms Christian Ministries Inc ($6k).
Does Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Green Bay Packers Foundation, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc, US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation.
Where is Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc is based in WI.

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 196 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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