Wisconsin · Private foundation
Gussel Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $289k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Gussel Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $289k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $195k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $179k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $97k | 77% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $64k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $64k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $58k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc | $73,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kilbourn Fire Department | $43,000 | 5 | 26% |
| Wis Dells Area United Fund | $42,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $37,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls on the Run Minnesota Inc | $27,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Leukemia Research Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beyond Blessed Pantry | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| K9s for Warriors Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Little Eagle Arts Foundation | $13,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($493k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gussel Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Gussel Foundation Inc
- How much does Gussel Foundation Inc give?
- Gussel Foundation Inc reported 51 grants totaling $288,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gussel Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (23%), Health (22%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
- Who are Gussel Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ($73k), Kilbourn Fire Department ($43k), Wis Dells Area United Fund ($42k).
- Does Gussel Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gussel Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gussel Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alliant Energy Foundation Inc, Todd and Shari Nelson Family Fdn Inc, The Evjue Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gussel Foundation Inc based?
- Gussel Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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