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Kalscheur Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $261k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE | $40,000 |
| SAVE OUR ALLIES | $20,000 |
| TOWN OF CROSS PLAINS | $20,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $20,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROMS MACROGLOBULINEMIA F | $20,000 |
| CHRIST MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| LOGAN JAMES HERR FOUNDATION INC | $12,000 |
| WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC | $11,500 |
| NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME INC | $10,000 |
| WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| ATTIC ANGEL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| DEFOREST POLICE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CHRIST MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
63 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +38%
- BHBADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +52%
- W4WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +294%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- MSMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INCone grant, 2019 · $148k
- ENEd Nebbins Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -95%
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
The madison professional police officers association represents law enforcement professionals who serve the city of madison, wisconsin, as either police officers, detectives, investigators, or sergeants.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
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.
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
World dairy expo is the premier forum for the global dairy community to learn, share, create commerce and showcase competition.
To promote the relevance, readiness, and modernization of our national guard, improving the quality of life for our members, and supporting state and national policies to advance the security of the united states.
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.
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…
Reedsburg area medical center, always there, going beyond the expected to provide compassionate, quality, and efficient health care.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Founded in 1911, our mission is to make wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation to do business. we are wisconsin's business voice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Pbs Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mazomanie Charitable Alliance. 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 33 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 160 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 YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VFW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BADGER HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SELAH FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds ENERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN AMERICAN LEGION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST DANE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL WALDENSTROM'S MACROGLOBULINEMIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRWIN A AND ROBERT D GOODMAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Area Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds ATTIC ANGEL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE CLINIC AND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME OF OUR OWN INC ↗
- Who funds Task Force Dagger Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUKE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Ed Nebbins Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WISCONSIN FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Save Our Allies ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF WISCONSIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · First Business Charitable Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Veridian Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · M3 Insurance Foundation Inc
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 Kalscheur Family Foundation 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.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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