· Private foundation
Gregory C Van Wie Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of GREGORY C VAN WIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $290k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY | $45,000 |
| CAMP GRAY INC | $30,000 |
| FAMILIES IN TRANSITION SUPPORT | $30,000 |
| ST CLARE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST NO 187 | $25,000 |
| WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE KIDS' RANCH INC | $25,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHUR | $23,000 |
| WISCONSIN DELLS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $22,000 |
| CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION | $20,000 |
| AGRACE INC | $15,000 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 5970 | $6,200 |
| SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- ESEASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC3× · 2018–2021 · $230k · revenue +15%
- SCST CLARE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $199k · revenue +96%
- BBBEYOND BLESSED PANTRY6× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF HH BENNET STUDIO FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $50k
- SHSSM HEALTH ST CLARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $35k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $32k
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.
Free food pantry. The Organization distributes free food to over 100 needy families per week, totaling almost 5000 visits per year. Over 70 individual volunteers receive, organize, and distribute over 200,000 pounds of food annually.
The mission of workforce resource, inc. is to empower people through employment.
Eagles Nest Projects Wisconsin is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to inspire and educate youth through hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs focused on aviation. The…
AGRACE Health's mission is Promoting quality life at the end of life, including the management of health care related services, by supporting and caring for the seriously ill and aging.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Baraboo area homeless shelter works to provide shelter and comprehensive case management services to persons experiencing homelessness in baraboo, wisconsin and the surrounding area.
Our mission is to build collective action to address root-causes and advance public health policy & practice to achieve a vision for a healthier, safer, and more equitable wisconsin.
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.
Aurora family service partners with families to enhance their capability to anticipate, identify and manage challenges they face in their everyday lives through the integration of health, mental health, and social services providing…
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.
Education of the histories of Badger Army Ammunition Plant and the Sauk Prairie. Purpose includes a public museum, website, public lectures and plant tours.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Families-in-Transition Support Network. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 50 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
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 EASTER SEALS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY ↗
- Who funds The Kids Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP GRAY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WISCONSIN COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES-IN-TRANSITION SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KILBOURN FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARABOO FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AUDIO & BRAILLE LITERACY ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Todd and Shari Nelson Family Fdn Inc · Gussel Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi · Seneca Foods Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Gregory C Van Wie Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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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