· Private foundation
Gussel Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY | $25,000 |
| AGRACE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $25,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN MINNESOTA | $15,000 |
| TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MADISON READING PROJECT | $11,000 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS | $11,000 |
| WISCONSIN DELLS SOCCER BOOSTER CLUB | $7,500 |
| DELLS AREA UNITED FUND | $7,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $6,000 |
| KILBOURN FIRE DEPARTMENT | $6,000 |
| DEMPSEY CENTER | $6,000 |
| RESOLVE | $5,000 |
| OXFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% 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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- KFKILBOURN FIRE DEPARTMENT5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +57% · 26% of their budget
- WDWIS DELLS AREA UNITED FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +5%
- TTTIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $37k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- JDJUNIOR DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $12k
- SCSAUK COUNTY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2024 · $5k
- MPMentoring Positives Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -40%
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 protect wisconsin's lands, waters, and wildlife by providing funding, leading partnerships, and connecting all people with nature.
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The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
Advance science-informed analysis and policy solutions that address wisconsin's greatest conservation challenges.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
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.
Willamette riverkeeper's guiding principle is: "we believe a river with excellent water quality, abundant natural habitat, safe for fishing and recreation is a basic public right." for 27 years, willamette riverkeeper (wrk) has acted as…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
The mission of mississippi valley conservancy is to conserve native habitats and farmlands in the driftless area for the health and well-being of current and future generations.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Dane County Parks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cal Center Presents. 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.
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 17 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 85 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 Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KILBOURN FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds WIS DELLS AREA UNITED FUND ↗
- Who funds TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE EAGLE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON READING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds The World Orphan Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BADGER PRAIRIE NEEDS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Dempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds CAL CENTER PRESENTS ↗
- Who funds ENDOMETRIOSIS ASSOC INC ↗
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.
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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 Gussel 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.
- K9S for Warriors 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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