· Private foundation
Hayssen Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE WALSINGHAM FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN CO FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY YMCA | $10,000 |
| A MILLION DREAMZ ORG | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BROUGHTON SHEBOYGAN MARSH | $10,000 |
| SHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC | $9,000 |
| LAKELAND COLLEGE | $9,000 |
| MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREAT LAKES AEROSPACE SCIENCE & EDUCATION CENTER CO JIM TESTWUIDE | $5,000 |
| ELKHART LAKEGLENBEULAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| BOOKWORM GARDENS | $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 (FY17–24, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% 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.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GWGRACE WALSINGHAM FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +144%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +66%
- SCSheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- SNST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
Our mission is to provide efficient, progressive financial services and products to our owner-members in agreement with credit union philosophy
To provide and operate a retirement home, health care center, and related services in the greater sheboygan area for elderly and physically handicapped adults, which shall enhance, honor and preserve the dignity of the individual, and…
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in…
The promotion, development and maintenance of the ellwood h. may environmental park and its programs. the environmental park trust of sheboygan county was created to provide funding for the ellwood h. may environmental park developed to be…
The mission of the sheboygan county economic development corporation (scedc), a countywide private/public partnership, is to lead economic development efforts to improve the economic well-being and long-term prosperity of the businesses,…
The mission of lake country academy is to be a recognized leader in education through direct instruction and core knowledge within an environment that emphasizes core values.
Provide educational development programs in sheboygan county
To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.
Promote yachting, boating and social activities of club members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan Public Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Lakes Aerospace Science and Education Center Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 GRACE WALSINGHAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON S RICHARDSON COMMUNITY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BROUGHTON ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEAD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELKHART LAKE-GLENBEULAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION DREAMZ INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES AEROSPACE SCIENCE AND EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PDV FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health America Lakeshore Inc ↗
- Who funds RCS EMPOWERS INC ↗
- Who funds 1907 Club ↗
- Who funds WEILL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMAZING GRACE EQUINE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE 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: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Kohler Foundation Inc · Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Catharine B Stayer Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Garton Family 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 Hayssen Family 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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