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Hislop Family Foundation
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 |
|---|---|
| DOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM | $5,000 |
| PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL | $2,500 |
| DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE | $2,000 |
| FEED AND CLOTHE MY PEOPLE OF DOOR COUNTY | $1,352 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR DOOR CNTY VOLUNTEER | $1,000 |
| SUNSHINE RESOURCES OF DOOR COUNTY | $1,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY MEDICAL CORPORATION | $1,000 |
| WRITE ON DOOR COUNTY | $1,000 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TATHIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +184%
- DCDOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM CORP2× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +79%
DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC3× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- LULAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +11%
CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INCone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +7%- DCDOOR COUNTY CANCER CENTERone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…
It is our mission to provide quality, developmentally appropriate experiences to the children and families of door county.
The mission of northern sky theater is to create, develop and present professional musical and dramatic productions which will further the knowledge and appreciation of the culture and heritage of the united states. northern sky is…
Charitable and educational purposes for the benefit of the door county library. tax deductible gifts to the library are gratefully received in the form of cash, stock, real estate, trusts, life insurance beneficiary designations, and…
To support, directly or indirectly, the goals of door county medical center by providing the fund raising and volunteer opportunities necessary to ensure quality care for all residents and visitors in the communities we serve.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
The Door County Housing Partnership is creating a stable supply of permanently affordable housing for year-round residents to maintain the character, vibrancy, and diversity of the Door County community. Door County has an affordable…
Peninsula players theatre is committed to preserving america's oldest professional resident summer theatre in its unique setting on sixteen forested acres along the shores of green bay. the theater's mission is to support, without…
The museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To preserve, promote, and disseminate the knowledge of the local history of langlade county, wisconsin
Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Door County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Clearing. 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 39 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% 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 9% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 THIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM CORP ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEED AND CLOTHE MY PEOPLE OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEARING ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR VOLUNTEER CARE GIVERS OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCIS HARDY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LTD ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILLER ART CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Mmg Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Lutsey Family Foundation · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Maihaugen Foundation Inc Agency Xxxxxx2262 · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Tatman 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 Hislop Family Foundation 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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