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Holzhueter Foundation at a glance

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Holzhueter Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$270kEducation$232kHuman Services$61kInternational$37kHealth$6kRecreation & Sports$5kYouth Development$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$715k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELS CHRISTIAN AID & RELIEF$23,000
TIME OF GRACE$10,000
FOOTNOTES TRAUMA FOUNDATION$5,000
LUTHERAN MILITARY SUPPORT GROUP$5,000
BLUE BUTTERFLY THRIFT STORE$5,000
RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL$5,000
316 NOW$2,000
MINNESOTA VALLEY LUTHERAN HS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LUTHERAN HOME OF BELLE PLAINE: $10k → 5%MN VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $23k → 8%BRANCH LUTHERAN SCHOOLS - HAITI: $6k → 14%ST MARK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18k → 15%BLUE BUTTERFLY THRIFT STORE: $5k → 5%NEW BEGINNINGS-A HOME FOR MOTHERS: $5k → 6%THE WAY CHURCH - FREDERICKSBURG VA: $4k → 15%LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $9k → 5%MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $22k → 8%ST MARK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $11k → 15%WELS CHRISTIAN AID & RELIEF: $23k → 5%LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $6k → 5%MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $21k → 8%ST MARKS EV LUTHERAN CHURCH: $9k → 15%KINGDOM WORKERS: $10k → 5%LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%MINNESOTA VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 8%ST MARK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $9k → 15%KINGDOM WORKERS: $10k → 5%WISCONSIN EV LUTHERAN SYNOD: $13k → 17%MINNESOTA VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 8%ST MARK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $9k → 15%WELS CHRISTIAN AID & RELIEF: $5k → 5%WISCONSIN EV LUTHERAN SYNOD: $8k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $10k → 8%RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $8k → 15%KINGDOM WORKERS: $5k → 5%WISCONSIN EV LUTHERAN SYNOD: $8k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $10k → 8%RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $8k → 15%WELS KINGDOM WORKERS: $7k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $9k → 8%RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $7k → 15%MINNESOTA VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 8%RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $6k → 15%LUTHERAN MILITARY SUPPORT GROUP: $5k → 8%FOOTNOTES TRAUMA FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $5k → 8%ST MARK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $5k → 15%WELS KINGDOM WORKERS: $10k → 17%MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $5k → 8%RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $5k → 15%WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE: $6k → 17%RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $5k → 15%WI LUTHERAN COLLEGE: $5k → 17%WELS KINGDOM WORKERS: $5k → 17%TIME OF GRACE: $7k → 17%TIME OF GRACE: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
CA
VA
AZ
SC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$517k · 26 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
28

Total granted

$517k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+11%

Still filing today

31%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WE
    WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +118%
  • TO
    TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +40%
  • WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • MV
    MN VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • LH
    LUTHERAN HOME OF BELLE PLAINE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SM
    ST MARKS EV LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jesus Is Enough Corp

Proclaiming Christ to Mormons

Religion
2
Luther House of Study

Grounded in lutheran theology, we strengthen lutheran leadership and ministries for the proclamation of the gospel.

Education
3
Lutherans in Africa

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.

Religion
4
Beyeperfect Corp

Proclaiming Christ to Mormons

Religion
5
New Life International Christian Ministry Inc

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.

Religion
6
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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7
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
8
Lx Ministries Inc

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…

Religion
9
Lakelight Institute

Lakelight Institute equips Christians with timeless wisdom for modern life.

Religion
10
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary Faith International University

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.

Education
11
Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries Inc

Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.

Religion
12
Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots Us

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Life Resources Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE: $86,500 · OtherMARTIN LUTHER COLLEGEST MARK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $54,000 · OtherST MARK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHRISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL INC: $41,500 · OtherRISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL INCWISCONSIN EV LUTHERAN SYNOD: $36,500 · OtherWISCONSIN EV LUTHERAN SYNODMINNESOTA VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $33,500 · OtherMINNESOTA VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLWELS CHRISTIAN AID & RELIEF: $28,000 · OtherWELS CHRISTIAN AID & RELIEFTHE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $23,500 · OtherMN VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $23,300 · OtherWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $17,000 · Other+38 more: $143,050 · Other+38 moreWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $56,150 · ReligionWISCONSIN EVANGEL…TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $31,000 · ReligionTIME OF GRACE MIN…+3 more: $8,000 · Religion+3 moreGrace in Action: $14,000 · EducationBranch Lutheran Schools of Haiti Inc: $3,000 · EducationFRIENDS NETWORK: $11,500 · InternationalFOOTNOTES TRAUMA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · HealthNEW BEGINNINGS-A HOME FOR MOTHERS INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$486,850Religion$95,150Education$17,000International$11,500Health$6,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $56,150 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY: $31,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LUTHERAN HOME ASSOCIATION: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGrace in Action: $14,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS NETWORK: $11,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFOOTNOTES TRAUMA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS-A HOME FOR MOTHERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBranch Lutheran Schools of Haiti Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRAISE AND PROCLAIM MINISTRIES CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 TRUTH IN LOVE MINISTRY CORP ↗
  • Who funds Branch Lutheran Schools of Haiti Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAISE AND PROCLAIM MINISTRIES CORPORATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Antioch Foundation 10…Thrivent Charitable I…Siebert Lutheran Foun…Arvid W & Judy R Schw…Neumann Family Founda…Robert a and Lynn I D…Thrivent Financial fo…Stimac Family Foundat…Church Mutual Insuran…Raabe FoundationFred C Rutz FoundationIhs Foundation
Antioch Foundation 1015002041WI30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Holzhueter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holzhueter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Holzhueter Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Holzhueter Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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