· Private foundation
International Association for Clear Thinking Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CLEAR THINKING INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WI HOOAH | $25,000 |
| YOU BELONG | $25,000 |
| VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC | $25,000 |
| PRO FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| GRAND CHUTE POLICE DEPT | $6,518 |
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 (FY18–23, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- LILEAVEN INC5× · 2018–2023 · $85k · revenue +5%
- RIRAWHIDE INC3× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +37%
- BIBEAMING INC5× · 2018–2023 · $71k · revenue +218%
Funded once
- COCITY OF APPLETON POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- OCOUTAGAMIE COUNT SHERIFF DEPTone grant, 2020 · $23k
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.
Our mission is to help people holistically come off psychiatric medications by empowering them to connect to their inner wisdom and heal root causes of dis-ease.
We provide compassionate guidance and support for the grieving. Fox Valley Hands of Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing expert support for children, families, and adults who are experiencing grief, loss, or…
To provide a safe and stable living environment for men in early recovery. we are a peer driven therapeutic community with a focus on equine-related employment opportunities.
The purpose of Open Employment, Inc. is to provide job placement services for people with disabilities, veterans, and others who experience employment in the community it serves.
Strength in every struggle and hope in every heart.
To provide mental health and chemical dependency prevention and treatment programs in Whitman County, Washington.
Provides work activity for the mentally and physically disabled.
Valley recovery partners (vrp) is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals in recovery by offering comprehensive services and opportunities for personal and professional development. our mission is to eliminate barriers to accessing…
Rock valley community programs, inc.'s (rvcp) mission is to provide transitional and supportive housing, addictions and mental health treatment services to adults in the rock county area, through evidence based models for the future and…
Waubonsie mental health center serves to promote and enhance community mental health values and to provide responsive and accessible mental health services and service coordination to the individuals who reside in fremont, montgomery, and…
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Appleton Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAMING INC ↗
- Who funds Wisconsin Meaningful Alternatives Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSFIRE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOORING PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOOAH WI INC ↗
- Who funds OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE APPLETON FIRE DEPARTMENT 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: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · John and Julie Schmidt Family Foundation · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 International Association for Clear Thinking 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.