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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 FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$42k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Casa Guadalupe Ed Center$8,000
Open Arms Christian Ministries Inc$6,000
Shepherds College$5,000
St Gregory of Nyssa$5,000
The Teacher Store$5,000
NAMI Brown County$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Neighborhood Food Pantries$5,000
Verona Weekend Food Program$5,000
Call to Freedom$5,000
Beyond Blessed Food Pantry$5,000
Spencer Chamber Foundation$5,000
Parke County Resource Center$5,000
Gildas Club$5,000
Horizons Unlimited of Palo Alto County$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Horizons Unlimited of Palo Alto County: $5k → 11%Cafe on Vine: $2k → 12%Mr Bob's Under the Bridge Inc: $5k → 6%Band of Blue: $4k → 10%Healing Hands Outreach Center: $5k → 18%Wabash Center: $4k → 19%Adaptive Sports Connection: $4k → 5%Cornerstone of Hope: $5k → 15%Neighborhood Food Pantries: $5k → 7%Call to Freedom: $5k → 9%Lutheran Services in Iowa: $2k → 7%Discovery Living: $1k → 9%Community Clothes Closet: $5k → 6%Hometown Heroes Inc: $5k → 6%Casa Guadalupe Ed Center: $8k → 6%SOAR Fox Cities: $5k → 7%Common Threads Family Resource Cent: $5k → 10%The Cooper House Inc: $4k → 5%The Caring Center: $1k → 5%Stone Belt: $2k → 18%The Wabash Independent Living Learn: $3k → 19%Loaves Fishes Community Services: $4k → 7%Wisconsibs Inc: $4k → 7%Envision Unlimited: $5k → 14%Furniture Mission of South Dakota: $5k → 9%Village Diaper Bank: $5k → 10%Heads up Fox Cities: $5k → 11%Midwest Food Bank: $1k → 16%Lazarus House: $5k → 8%Operation North Pole: $3k → 14%Zachariahs Acres: $2k → 5%Open Arms Christian Ministries Inc: $6k → 18%OccuPaws Guide Dog Association: $5k → 10%Journeys the Road Home: $5k → 14%Family Mentor Foundation: $5k → 15%Mutual Ground: $3k → 8%The Bike Lady: $2k → 15%Cedar Valley Hospice: $3k → 17%South Milwaukee Human Concerns: $3k → 17%The Sewing Machine Project: $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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 32%.

Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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.

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Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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2
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
3
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
4
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
5
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
6
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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7
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
8
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
9
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
10
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…

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11
Waunakee Neighborhood Connection

Provide programs and resources that address financial security and social connections by engaging neighbors to support and empower one another.

Human Services
12
Homebound Meals Inc

The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc; the most unlike its peers is Brittany Corcoran Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

134 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. 134 of the 196 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)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/134
Grantees still filing
92/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+104 more: $355,930 · Other+104 moreCASA GUADALUPE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · Human Services+38 more: $140,100 · Human Services+38 moreBadger Childhood Cancer Network Inc: $5,000 · HealthBadger Ch…EISENHOWER CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthEISENHOWE…COMPASSIONATE HOME HEALTH CARE LLC: $5,000 · HealthCOMPASSIO…EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY: $5,000 · HealthEXCEPTION…AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC: $5,000 · HealthAUDIO & B…MCCROSSAN BOYS RANCH: $5,000 · HealthMCCROSSAN…COVEY INC: $5,000 · HealthCOVEY INCFamily Health Partnership Clinic: $4,000 · HealthFamily He…OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $4,000 · HealthOLD IRVIN…CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC: $2,500 · HealthBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People: $2,500 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · HealthWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC: $2,500 · Health+2 more: $2,700 · HealthEIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVES INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPILLARS INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER MUSCATINE COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJourney 21 Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterHome of the Sparrow Inc: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT HOME INC: $3,500 · Housing & ShelterCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGES COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTRY PIE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE 180 ZONE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIKES FOR KIDS WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentRUN THE RACE CLUB: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentROCK HOUSE KIDS: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMS ON HORSEBACK: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARKE COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY PANTRY INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionBETWEEN FRIENDS FOOD PANTRY OF SUGAR GROVE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionKENNETH BUTLER MEMORIAL SOUP KITCHEN INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionGROW IT FORWARD INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionMILLION MEAL MOVEMENT INC: $3,500 · Food & NutritionPOINTER PANTRY: $3,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR GREATER ELGIN INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST IOWA FOOD BANK: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionKANDU INDUSTRIES INC: $5,000 · EmploymentNORTH STAR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,000 · EmploymentHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $3,000 · EmploymentJANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $3,000 · EmploymentINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EmploymentTHE WORKSHOP: $1,000 · Employment
Other$355,930Human Services$154,100Health$55,700Housing & Shelter$37,500Youth Development$37,000Food & Nutrition$37,000Employment$18,500

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 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
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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Community Foundation …US Ventureschmidt Fam…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Alliant Energy Founda…J J Keller Foundation…Lsb FoundationGreater Green Bay Com…United Way Fox Cities…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Otto Bremer TrustThe Bersted Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Gordon Flesch Charitable 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 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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