· Private foundation
Harvey Nelson Char Tr
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| WAUSAU EAST HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WAUSA | $4,000 |
| WAUSAU WEST HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| D C EVEREST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $2,532 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU INC | $2,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WI-NORTHCENTRAL | $2,500 |
| MARATHON COUNTY PARK FDN | $2,500 |
| PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MONK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN CAMPUS FOUNDAT | $2,000 |
| WOODSON YMCAINVEST IN YOUTH | $2,000 |
| SAMOSET COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT | $2,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PAPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +448%
- WYWOODSON YMCA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +88%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU INC8× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- JJJOJO'S JUNGLE FUNDone grant, 2018 · $8k
- NWNORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN AREAone grant, 2023 · $3k
- WVWORKPLACE VOLUNTEER COUNCIL ( WVC-FABFone grant, 2020 · $250
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.
The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…
Provide young singers with a choral experience where excellence is valued. Singers have an opportunity to develop their full musical potential and increase their self- esteem through the success that comes from working together.
Girl scouts of wisconsin southeast, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is the preeminent membership-based organization dedicated to helping all girls develop the confidence, determination, and skills needed to thrive in today's world. girl scouting…
Our mission is to provide statewide music programming activities, offer leadership and support for school music programs, and advance music as an integral part of the school curriculum and community life.
The mission of women in technology is to attract, grow, and retain women of all ages in technology-related careers. wit collaborates with professionals, companies, and communities to help women in technology of all ages and stages - from…
To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.
The central wisconsin symphony orchestra's mission is to enrich, engage and educate through the power and performance of live music. the vision of the central wisconsin symphony orchestra serves as a center of artistic excellence; through…
Girl scouting builds girls* of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wausau Conservatory of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marathon County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 45 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 PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAUSAU INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE NORTHWESTERN GREAT LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Wausau Lyric Choir Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WAUSAU CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN 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.
Open a dossier: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Victor & Helen Geisel Foundation · The Macdonald Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Dan Storey Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation
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 Harvey Nelson Char Tr 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.