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James D Greenheck Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$168k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Education$927kArts & Culture$100kScience & Tech$56kYouth Development$15kPublic Benefit$15kEmployment$13kHealth$9kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEARN BUILD FLY$50,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM$25,000
PATRIOTS K9 OF WI$15,000
SKILLS USA$12,500
DC EVEREST SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,500
WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,500
JOSHUA'S CAMP$5,000
ST MATTHEW CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NTC FOUNDATION$150
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$863k · 10 repeat orgs$277k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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11

Total granted

$863k
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+19%

Still filing today

50%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • LB
    LEARN BUILD FLY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $386k · revenue +434% · 67% of their budget
  • SI
    SAE INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2019–2021 · $56k · revenue +16%
  • JC
    JOSHUAS CAMP CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MF
    MID-STATE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • MS
    MSRA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • NH
    NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

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

04Your field

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.

1
The Foundation of the Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Association

The foundation's mission is to support educational initiatives that help ensure wisconsin maintains a highly skilled transportation workforce.

Education
2
Wisconsin First Robotics Inc

To spread the reach of the first program through wisconsin to provide k-12 student opportunities to develop skills in stem, business, teamwork and real world problem solving.

Youth Development
3
Wctc Foundation Inc

Wctc foundation inc. is a not-for-profit organization established to secure charitable resources helping the students of waukesha county technical college (wctc) achieve their educational goals. the organization solicits, holds, invests,…

Philanthropy
4
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Inc

The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…

5
The Uwm Foundation Inc

The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…

Education
6
Mathematics Institute of Wisconsin Co Kathryn Leverenz
Education
7
Wisconsin Technology Innovation Initiative Inc

Support, promote, and facilitate partnerships with and provide funding for innovative early-stage and startup companies to lessen the burdens of government by promoting economic development and creating sustaining jobs in wisconsin.

8
Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future

Education
9
Starbase Minnesota Inc

To inspire and educate minnesota youth in science, technology, engineering and math (stem)

Education
10
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
11
Wisconsin Technical College System Foundation Inc

The wisconsin technical college system (wtcs) foundation, inc., seeks to advance the wisconsin technical college system, its constituent technical colleges and public and private sector career, technical and workplace education. the…

Education
12
National Model Railroad Assoc Inc

National model railroad association, inc. was founded in wisconsin in 1935. its purpose is to establish and maintain standards, publish a monthly bulletin, and to inform and serve its membership.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is Msra Scholarship Foundation. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT — $92,500 · OtherWAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICTSTEM 101 — $70,000 · OtherSTEM 101DCEVEREST SCHOOL DISTRICT — $57,500 · OtherDCEVEREST SCHOOL DISTRICTMID-STATE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherMID-STATE FOUNDATIONNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $40,150 · OtherNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FORMULA SAE — $35,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FORMULA SAEIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherNEWMAN HIGH SCHOOLNORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ANTIQUE — $25,000 · OtherSAE STUDENT CLUB — $25,000 · OtherDAN DREVNICK MEMORIAL FUND — $20,000 · Other+6 more — $47,473 · Other+6 moreLEARN BUILD FLY INC — $386,411 · EducationLEARN BUILD FLY INCMSRA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationMSRA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'…SAE INTERNATIONAL — $56,000 · Science & TechPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $15,000 · Public BenefitJOSHUAS CAMP CORPORATION — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEMONS OF LOVE INC — $8,973 · HealthCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $1,051 · Human Services
Other$527,623Education$416,411Arts & Culture$100,000Science & Tech$56,000Public Benefit$15,000Youth Development$15,000Health$8,973Human Services$1,051

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEARN BUILD FLY INC — $386,411 over 6y, 67% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC — $100,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetSAE INTERNATIONAL — $56,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $40,150 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJOSHUAS CAMP CORPORATION — $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLEMONS OF LOVE INC — $8,973 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $1,051 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LEARN BUILD FLY INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC
  • Who funds SAE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds NORTHCENTRAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MSRA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PATRIOT K9S OF WISCONSININC
  • Who funds JOSHUAS CAMP CORPORATION
  • Who funds LEMONS OF LOVE INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON

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.

Ba & Esther Greenheck FoundationWI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 James D Greenheck Foundation 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to James D Greenheck Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to James D Greenheck Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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