· Private foundation
John and Peggy Zimdars Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Time of Grace | $12,500 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $5,500 |
| Wisconsin Historical Foundation | $5,000 |
| Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras | $5,000 |
| Siebert Lutheran Foundation | $2,500 |
| Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel | $2,000 |
| Christ Lutheran Church | $1,500 |
| Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod | $1,500 |
| Little Saints Early Childhood Center | $1,000 |
| First Emmanuel Lutheran School | $1,000 |
| Access Community Health Center | $1,000 |
| The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina | $1,000 |
| WELS Kingdom Workers | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| St Marcus Lutheran School | $700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of John and Peggy Zimdars Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in WI; by stated purpose, 92%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +39%
- SLSIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $48k · revenue +303%
- TOTIME OF GRACE MINISTRY7× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- CCCarbone Cancer Centerone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HCHOLY CROSS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- HCHOLY CROSS LUTHERAN SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Wisconsin collaborative for healthcare quality, inc. publicly reports and brings meaning to performance measurement information that improves the quality and affordability of healthcare in wisconsin, in turn improving the health of…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Advance the interests of wda members and the dental profession by promoting professional excellence and quality oral health care for the public.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIME OF GRACE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION -- WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Arvid W & Judy R Schwartz Family Foundation · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Evjue Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Peggy Zimdars Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Peggy Zimdars Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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