· Private foundation
Gordon R Connor Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $35,500 |
| BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC | $10,000 |
| CAMP MANITOW-WISH YMCA INC | $1,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $1,000 |
| ARMY A CLUB | $500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Gordon R Connor Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +124% · 51% of their budget
JUDICIAL WATCH INC4× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +3%- SRSUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISONone grant, 2024 · $500
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 inform and educate the public about forest industries practices in minnesota.
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Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The charitable activities of the Good Work Institute are designed to strengthen collaboration; address legacies of unequal power; and encourage a transition to regenerative ecological and social systems.
The institute is a free market oriented think tank dedicated to gathering, disseminating, and educating illinois constituents on local, state, and federal public policy issues facing illinois.
The institute works as a public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Perform basic research and preclinical efficacy assessments of new molecular entities being developed for the prevention and treatment of cancer and infectious disease. Discover new pathways and targets for the design and development of…
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The organization's mission is concerned with exploring, explaining, and easing problems associated with both the separation and division of powers in the american federal system.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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 CAMP FIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR REFORMING GOVERNMENT 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: Hamilton Roddis Foundation Inc · Connor Foundation · McP Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gordon R Connor Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon R Connor Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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