How much did Green Bay Packers Foundation grant in FY2025?

Human Services$4.3MEducation$4.2MHealth$3.4MRecreation & Sports$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.9MArts & Culture$1.7MYouth Development$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.1MOther$0

02FY2025 · 530 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k491 grants · $1.7M
$10k–50k28 grants · $588k
$50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M

$3,500

Median grant

States reached

$57M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM	$200,000
CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CENTER INC	$200,000
FRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH & FAMILIES INC	$155,399
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED	$150,000
AGRACE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED	$125,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN	$110,874
JOURNEYS LUTHERAN SCHOOL	$100,000
FRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH & FAMILIES INC	$94,601
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN WISCONSIN	$60,000
ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE INC	$56,653
MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC	$51,040
MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC	$47,660
MENTOR GREATER MILWAUKEE	$45,000
DE'VONDRE CAMPBELL FAMILY YOUTH FOUNDATION	$40,000
ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE INC	$34,030

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 697 repeat orgs$6.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

697 repeat relationships — 245 still active in FY2025, 452 since wound down; 246 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

697

1026

Total granted

$16M

$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+5%

Still filing today

74%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $480k · revenue +75%
GG
GREATER GREEN BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
4× · 2018–2025 · $306k · revenue +78%
JN
JACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $294k · revenue +22%

Funded once

ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC
one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +3%
HS
HSHS ST VINCENTST MARY'S HOSPITAL
one grant, 2019 · $250k
CF
CENTER FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE AND CULTURE INC
one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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

Wisconsin Youth Company Inc

Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.

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Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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Northwest Wisconsin Community Services Agency Inc

To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.

Human Services

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

Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit

One Wisconsin Now Inc

To advance progressive values, ideas and policies through research, policy, networking, advocacy and public education.

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Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

The wisconsin council of the blind and visually impaired's mission is to promote the dignity and empowerment of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired by providing services, advocating legislation, and educating the…

Health

Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee Inc

To promote interests and effectiveness of the nonprofit sector through strengthening organizational capacity, expanding volunteerism and encouraging collaboration.

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Wisconsin Progress Inc

Wisconsin progress recruits, trains, elects, and develops progressive candidates and leaders at the local and state legislative levels.

Civil Rights

Community Shares of Wisconsin Inc

Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%22/1,332

the rest of the field

2,207/23,252

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.

04the grantee network

1151 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. 1151 of the 1,978 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

336

Early backer (in before they grew)

1093/1151

Grantees still filing

707/1151

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,771,946Human Services$2,686,979Education$1,510,628Health$949,041Housing & Shelter$857,194Philanthropy$564,020Food & Nutrition$500,194

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.

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI199.2× affinity300 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region 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 Green Bay Packers 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Green Bay Packers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Green Bay Packers 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.

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