· Private foundation
Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,860 |
| The Calumet Club | $500 |
| NKMNSC | $500 |
| Sheboygan Humane Society | $500 |
| Weill Center | $500 |
| Making Spirits Bright | $500 |
| Northside Food Pantry | $500 |
| Safe Harbor | $400 |
| Make A Wish Wisconsin | $360 |
| Aspen Center for Environmental Stud | $360 |
| Project Angel Hugs | $360 |
| Wounded Warriors United of Wisconsi | $360 |
| St Vincent de Paul | $350 |
| DunGood Riders | $250 |
| Toys For Tots | $200 |
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 (FY21–25, $860) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2022–2025 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2020–2023 · $7k
- MSMAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NFNOURISH FARMS INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +23%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $750
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $650
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.
Hospice care - wings of hope hospice and palliative care, inc. provides compassionate care in the later stages of life and support through the grief experience for individuals and families.
Lead sheboygan county's efforts to increase the food security of its residents by distributing healthy emergency food and fostering innovative partnerships.
To feed and care for abandoned or injured animals
Our mission is to provide hospice care to terminally ill patients and their families regardless of their ability to pay. staff is on call 24 hours a day to provide nursing, pastoral and bereavement care.
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.
Service for disabled adults
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
Flies large scale transports of at-risk shelter pets from disaster areas and overcrowded shelters to brick and mortar shelters where there is empty kennel space and where no local shelter pets are displaced by our flights.
Meals on wheels of loveland and berthoud seeks to nourish and enrich the lives of homebound individuals by providing nutritious meals and daily contact with a caring volunteer.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To inspire and empower people to protect america's wild snowscapes
To provide a place of refuge, peace, restoration and hope, dedicated to help people establish intimacy with jesus christ and those they love.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aspen Center for Environmental Studies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 44 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 MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds DUN-GOOD RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS UNITED OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSHORE HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HUGS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DELAND RECEIVING HOME 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Merkel Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Wm Collins Kohler Foundation Inc · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Helen V Werner and John M Werner Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.