How much does Grande Foundation give?

Grande Foundation reported 90 grants totaling $588,985 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 92 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Grande Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Youth Development (28%), Health (11%).

Who are Grande Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Green County Family YMCA Inc ($250k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Green County Inc ($221k), Marian University Inc ($105k).

Does Grande Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Grande Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Grande Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fond Du Lac Area Foundation, Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc, Michels Family Foundation.

Where is Grande Foundation based?

Grande Foundation is based in WI.

Grande Foundation

Grande Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Grande Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$589k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$140k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$876kYouth Development$798kHealth$314kEducation$292kRecreation & Sports$202kArts & Culture$150kCommunity Improvement$112kFood & Nutrition$69kOther$0

02FY2025 · 90 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k83 grants · $112k
$10k–50k4 grants · $83k
$50k–250k3 grants · $394k

$550

Median grant

States reached

$29k

Total assets

Largest grants
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 JERSEY	$6,250
MAKE A WISH GREATER LOS ANGELES	$6,250
MAKE A WISH NEW HAMPSHIRE	$6,250
MAKE A WISH MID SOUTH	$6,250
ST MARYS SPRINGS ACADEMY	$5,500

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 92 repeat orgs$637k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$560k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%

+2%

Still filing today

46%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TA
THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +20%
WF
WMC FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $83k · revenue +55%
BL
BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INCORPORATED
4× · 2022–2025 · $78k · revenue +35%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $250k
SV
ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
one grant, 2022 · $125k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
one grant, 2022 · $48k

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.

04Its 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.

Fond Du Lac Area United Way Inc

To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community

Philanthropy

Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

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…

Environment

Wisconsin Association of Lakes Inc

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.

Environment

Lad Lake Inc

The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.

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Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals

Lake Area Free Clinic Inc

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.

Health

Feed My People Inc

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.

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Waukesha Free Clinic Inc

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.

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Door County Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment

Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitab

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.

Health

The Wisconsin Ffa Foundation Inc

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…

Youth Development

Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin Charitable Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 214 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

96/96

Grantees still filing

48/96

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,913,524Human Services$370,648Recreation & Sports$178,800Health$126,727Arts & Culture$122,650Education$110,950Philanthropy$28,800

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Fond Du Lac Area FoundationWI65.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Grande Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grande Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Grande Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Grande Foundation 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home