· Private foundation
Holzhueter Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELS CHRISTIAN AID & RELIEF | $23,000 |
| TIME OF GRACE | $10,000 |
| RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BLUE BUTTERFLY THRIFT STORE | $5,000 |
| LUTHERAN MILITARY SUPPORT GROUP | $5,000 |
| FOOTNOTES TRAUMA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| 316 NOW | $2,000 |
| MINNESOTA VALLEY LUTHERAN HS | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 74% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- WEWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +118%
- TOTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +38%
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- MVMN VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $23k
- LHLUTHERAN HOME OF BELLE PLAINEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SMST MARKS EV LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $9k
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.
Proclaiming Christ to Mormons
Grounded in lutheran theology, we strengthen lutheran leadership and ministries for the proclamation of the gospel.
To help and preserve the legacy of our faith unto generations to come by teaching in africa to respond with biblical answers, not human philosophy.
Proclaiming Christ to Mormons
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures
Our mission is to multiply the global impact and influence of Christian leaders and pastors throughout their organizations and communities. Our activities involve working with members of the leadership of other exclusively charitable…
Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.
Faith evangelical seminary exists to glorify god by equipping christian leaders with a biblical, theological, and practical education empowering them to apply and proclaim the inerrant word of god for world-wide christian service.
Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.
Lutheran indian ministries shares the gospel of jesus christ with native american people, encouraging them to proclaim christ's kingdom to their own and to others.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Life Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Praise and Proclaim Ministries Corporation. 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 60 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
12 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. 12 of the 57 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 WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds THE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Grace in Action ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FOOTNOTES TRAUMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS-A HOME FOR MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH IN LOVE MINISTRY CORP ↗
- Who funds Branch Lutheran Schools of Haiti 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: Antioch Foundation 1015002041 · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Arvid W & Judy R Schwartz Family Foundation · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Stimac Family Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Raabe Foundation · Fred C Rutz Foundation · Ihs 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 Holzhueter 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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