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James E Dutton Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Environment$467kAnimals$302kRecreation & Sports$44kEducation$38kYouth Development$29kArts & Culture$13kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $63k
$4,900
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pineview Wildlife Rehabilitation Center$12,500
Raptor Education Group Inc$10,000
Wisconsin Humane Society$10,000
Driftless Area Land Conservancy Inc$10,000
Friends of the Cedarburg Bog Inc$10,000
Urban Ecology Center$10,000
Rock River Coalition$8,778
Carroll University$7,500
Lake Michigan Bird Observatory$7,068
Friends of Wisconsin Camp Tapawingo$7,000
Wisconsin Assn for Environmental Education$6,500
Van der Brohe Arboretum and Bird Sanctuary$6,465
Trees for Tomorrow$5,000
Adaptive Sportsmen$5,000
Riveredge Nature Center$5,000
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 (FY22–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Pawsitive Perspective Assistance Dogs: $5k → 6%Pets Helping People: $4k → 17%Adaptive Community Approach Program: $4k → 5%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

MN
IL
WI
MI
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CA
MO
VA
MD
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of James E Dutton Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

James E Dutton Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$351k · 29 repeat orgs$551k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
87

Total granted

$351k
$475k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • RR
    Rock River Coalition Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +57%
  • GW
    GATHERING WATERS INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +47%
  • DA
    DRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • CW
    Central Wisconsin Environmental Station
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k

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
Wisconsin Wildlife Federation Inc

The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.

Environment
2
Southeast Wisconsin Land Conservancy

Obtain and manage land of ecological significance.

Environment
3
Milwaukee Audubon Society Inc

Protect and restore Wisconsin's natural heritage and ecology through active leadership, education and stewardship

Environment
4
Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha County Inc

The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.

Animals
5
Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association Inc

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment
6
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
7
Wisconsin Association of Lakes Inc

The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.

Environment
8
Friends of Wisconsin State Parks Inc

To preserve, promote, protect, and enhance wisconsin state parks, forests, trails, and recreation areas.

Recreation & Sports
9
Zoological Society of Milwaukee Cty

The mission of the zoological society is to take part in conserving wildlife and endangered species, to educate people about the importance of wildlife and the environment, and to support the milwaukee county zoo.

Animals
10
Missaukee Humane Society

Humane treatement of animals

Animals
11
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
12
Glacial Lakes Conservancy Inc

Glacial Lakes Conservancy, as a land trust, is a nonprofit organization that, as part of its mission, actively works to conserve land by undertaking or assisting in land or conservation easement acquisitions.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Valley Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lancova Partners for Pets Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Youth CampsCommunity FoundationsEquine Therapy ProgramsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Arts CentersYouth Development CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr12%7%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%4%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr19%15%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,430

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.

05the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 133 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/89
Grantees still filing
56/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Rock River Coalition Inc — $27,556 · EnvironmentRock River Coalition IncGATHERING WATERS INC — $22,500 · EnvironmentGATHERING WATERS INCDRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentDRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INCURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INCALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $18,500 · EnvironmentALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INCGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $12,000 · EnvironmentRESTORING LANDS INC — $12,000 · Environment+29 more — $176,675 · Environment+29 moreCentral Wisconsin Environmental Station — $15,000 · OtherDucks Unlimited — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherPHEASANTS FOREVER INC — $13,412 · OtherThe Nature Place — $12,865 · OtherLAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY — $12,068 · OtherADAPTIVE SPORTSMEN INC — $12,000 · OtherSEWISC - Southeastern Wisconsin Invasive Species Consortium — $10,600 · Other+42 more — $200,725 · Other+42 moreWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $17,500 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCI…NORTHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $14,598 · AnimalsNORTHWOODS HUMANE SOC…PINEVIEW WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER INC — $12,500 · AnimalsPINEVIEW WILDLIFE REH…RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC — $12,500 · AnimalsRAPTOR EDUCATION GROU…OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $11,000 · AnimalsOSHKOSH AREA HUMANE S…American Bird Conservancy — $10,000 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conserv…RUFF START RESCUE INC — $8,000 · AnimalsLINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYINC — $7,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $7,500 · AnimalsWILD PAWS MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,000 · Animals+20 more — $66,032 · Animals+20 moreSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $17,000 · EducationCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $15,000 · EducationSUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $9,925 · EducationHOWARD SUAMICO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · EducationIPM INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC — $4,900 · EducationTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION — $3,900 · EducationFRIENDS OF WISCONSIN CAMP TAPAWINGO CORPORATION — $14,000 · Recreation & SportsACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsPAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS — $5,000 · Human ServicesOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE COMMUNITY APPROACH PROGRAM INC — $4,150 · Human ServicesPETS HELPING PEOPLE INC — $3,750 · Human ServicesNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureARTS AT LARGE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBETTY BRINN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $7,200 · Youth Development
Environment$309,231Other$306,670Animals$174,130Education$60,725Recreation & Sports$19,000Human Services$17,900Arts & Culture$12,500Youth Development$7,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRock River Coalition Inc — $27,556 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetGATHERING WATERS INC — $22,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDRIFTLESS AREA LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $17,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $14,598 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF WISCONSIN CAMP TAPAWINGO CORPORATION — $14,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC — $13,412 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC — $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN BIRD OBSERVATORY — $12,068 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGROUNDSWELL CONSERVANCY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESTORING LANDS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE RIVERKEEPER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CEDARBURG BOG INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRIVER REVITALIZATION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMequon Nature Preserve Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER AND PRESERVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSUPERIOR RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $9,925 over 1y, 14% of budgetRIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC — $9,875 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSonoma Ecology Center — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRUFF START RESCUE INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYINC — $7,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTREES FOR TOMORROW INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHLAND COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC — $7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILD PAWS MIDWEST ANIMAL SANCTUARY — $7,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NORTH PIKES CREEK WETLANDS — $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWINGS OVER WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS ABILITY WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOWARD SUAMICO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWISCONSIN'S GREEN FIRE INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

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.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Alliant Energy Founda…Herbert H Kohl Charit…Greater Milwaukee Fou…John C Bock FoundationWisconsin Public Serv…Baird Foundation IncNatural Resources Fou…National Fish and Wil…Madison Gas and Elect…The Brookby FoundationThe American Society …
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI53.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · John C Bock Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Natural Resources Foundation Of · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · The Brookby Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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 E Dutton 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report 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, FY20–25

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 E Dutton Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to James E Dutton 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 133 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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