· Private foundation
Jw Etzelmueller Trust Fund
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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CENTRAL | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR - FOOD PANTRY | $4,000 |
| TOMAH AREA COMMUNITY THEATER | $3,000 |
| THE CARING CLOSET | $3,000 |
| KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC | $2,000 |
| TOMAH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| HANDISHOP INDUSTRIES INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NORTH AMERICAN SQUIRREL ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CENTRAL3× · 2023–2025 · $20k
- CCCaring Closet Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $14k
- NFNEIGHBOR FOR NEIGHBOR - FOOD PANTRY2× · 2024–2025 · $6k
Funded once
- TLTOMAH LIONS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $7k
- WWWESTERN WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $2k
- TCTREASURED CHESTS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Provide temporary assistance to needy individuals. Primary assistance with rent, utilities and food.
Our mission is to help low-income families and families experiencing homelessness achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
The Housing Action Coalition brings together community resources to address the needs of Waukesha Countys most vulnerable people. The Coalition assists those in need of emergency housing, financial assistance, food and many other…
Kenosha christmas charities, inc. is committed to the mission of serving disadvantaged children of kenosha county by purchasing toys, food and clothing for distribution through a consortium of social agencies (holiday house) in the…
Baraboo area homeless shelter works to provide shelter and comprehensive case management services to persons experiencing homelessness in baraboo, wisconsin and the surrounding area.
To promote the sport of ice hockey and educate participants while instilling the importance of sportsmanship and fair play.
Our mission is to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
Provide shelter, temporary housing and wraparound services to people experiencing homelessness and/or living in poverty.
Homeless Shelter
To provide financial support to those in the community with financial needs in the way of lodging and utilities. Also to help those facing financial difficulties to obtain the necessary prescriptions and basic medical needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families First of Monroe County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Family Promise of the Great Rivers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 20 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 Caring Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST OF MONROE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HANDISHOP INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AREA COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN SQUIRREL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Tomah Health Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TOMAH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE GREAT RIVERS 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: Thomas B Earle Foundation · Frank G Andres Charitable Trust · The Covia Foundation · Bernadette M Otto Charitable Foundation · Stephen D and Betty J Gebhardt Family Foundation Inc · 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 Jw Etzelmueller Trust Fund 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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