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John & Janet Vandenwymelenberg Foundatio
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
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 $10k17 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $172k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAUL'S PANRTY | $28,864 |
| NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC | $27,388 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $19,840 |
| MANNA FOR LIFE MINISTRIES | $18,500 |
| SISTERS OF ST FRANCIS OF THE HOLY CROSS | $17,772 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $14,747 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $12,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER | $11,500 |
| WAYFORWARD RESOURCES | $11,000 |
| SHARING AND CARING HANDS | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN MANY LANDS | $9,800 |
| CITY CHURCH MADISON INC | $9,800 |
| SALVATORIAN MISSION WAREHOUSE | $9,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $9,500 |
| ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING | $9,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- PPPAUL'S PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $192k · revenue +50%
- NCNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +106%
- FHFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MDMONDERN DAY MISSIONSone grant, 2021 · $9k
SMILE TRAIN INCone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +19%- MDMODERN DAY MISSIONSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +457%
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.
The union gospel mission duluth is a welcoming christian nonprofit organization that serves as a refuge and is committed to nourishing peoples physical, spiritual, and social needs. through our on-site meal program, community housing…
Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.
housing and feeding the homeless
To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.
New Covenant Safe Haven is a Christian-based organization committed to uplifting and supporting individuals and families living in poverty within our community. Our primary mission is to provide essential services such as temporary shelter…
the mission of networks cooperative ministry, inc. is to respond with the hospitality of christ to the food and financial needs of residents and to partner with them to find long-term solutions to poverty.
Community outreach and church services
Christ centered ministry that provides food, rent, utility and medicine support for local individuals who are in need.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Provide meals, clothing, counseling, referrals, spiritual guidance and shelter to anyone in need without charge
We are a "7 days a week" Church, an Urban Center meeting the six needs of body and soul in Matthew 25:35-40: Welcoming Strangers, Feeding the Hungry, Quenching Spiritual Thirst, Clothing the Naked, Caring for the Sick, and Visiting…
Religious and counselling
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sharing Resources Worldwide 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.
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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 42 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 PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORK SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Sharing Resources Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MODERN DAY MISSIONS ↗
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: Arnold Vanden Wymelenberg Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Madigan Family Foundation · Rosemary L & John P Mortensen Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Joseph & Sarah Van Drisse Charitable Trust · De Pere Christian Outreach · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Marathon Inc · The Mulva Family 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 John & Janet Vandenwymelenberg Foundatio 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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