· Private foundation
Grande Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k83 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $394k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOND DU LAC YMCA | $140,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $129,037 |
| GREEN COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $125,000 |
| WMC FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| FOND DU LAC FESTIVALS INC | $23,200 |
| THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $20,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $10,000 |
| FOND DU LAC COUNTY AGRICULTURE SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| DOWNTOWN FOND DU LAC PARTNERSHIP | $7,150 |
| ENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC | $6,480 |
| MAKE A WISH NEW HAMPSHIRE | $6,250 |
| MAKE A WISH MID SOUTH | $6,250 |
| MAKE A WISH GREATER LOS ANGELES | $6,250 |
| MAKE A WISH NEW JERSEY | $6,250 |
| ST MARYS SPRINGS ACADEMY | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +5% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- TATHE ARC FOND DU LAC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +2%
- WFWMC FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $83k · revenue +15%
- BLBLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $78k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $250k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $125k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2022 · $48k
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 individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.
To eliminate hunger by distributing food and household products to food pantries, community meal sites, and other programs serving low income people in 14 counties in west central wisconsin.
The clinic's mission is to support the health care of uninsured and low-income residents of waukesha county. the clinic provides access to free or discounted services and medications.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
The mission of the wisconsin association of free and charitable clinics is to support, strengthen and advocate for wisconsin's free and charitable clinics and their unique approach to serving their patients and their communities.
The wisconsin ffa foundation builds relationships and encourages philanthropy to support and grow agricultural education and ffa.the national ffa organization is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by…
The mission of the professional fire fighters of wisconsin charitable foundation is to champion community risk reduction initiatives; promote fire safety and prevention; and deliver meaningful support to burn survivors, fire fighters and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kicking It With the Cows. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
96 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. 96 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Green County Family YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds WMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
- Who funds THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Holyland Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THAT MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN FOND DU LAC PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Blandine House Inc ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY YOUTH BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Michels Family Foundation · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Sadoff Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Baker Family 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 Grande Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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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