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Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc
Mission statement: to gather, grow, and give endowed charitable financial resources to build stronger, more vibrant communities now and into the future.value statement:we are committed to managing our clients' philanthropic endowments in perpetuity, with a focus on minimizing costs and fees to maximize their impact on the grantees they…
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.
The 75 grants below total $2,806,558 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,017,961 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $211,403 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $148k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $590k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $276,450 |
| DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC | $241,667 |
| LAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS PROGRAMS | $180,000 |
| MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $168,600 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $160,000 |
| RONCALLI CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $158,950 |
| LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $137,994 |
| MANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $134,810 |
| CAPITOL CIVIC CENTRE INC | $119,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $90,000 |
| MANITOWOC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC | $87,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $82,093 |
| WEILL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $70,000 |
| WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC | $61,615 |
| THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC | $50,000 |
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, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 15 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +4% · 27% of their budget- CCCAPITOL CIVIC CENTRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $711k · revenue +43%
- LCLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $617k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- TCTRINITY COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +48%
- FOFRIENDS OF SHEBOYGAN JAYCEES INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -100%
- VOVILLAGE OF ST NAZIANZone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
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.
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.
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…
To assist local businesses in their growth in the manitowoc county area and to attract new businesses to the manitowoc county area.
Provide a unified voice, resources, and leadership to advance the pharmacy profession and improve the quality of medication use in wisconsin.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 135 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 LAKESHORE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL CIVIC CENTRE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FIRST ROBOTICS INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MANITOWOC PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA INNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - MANITOWOC INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOWOC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC ↗
- Who funds MANITOWOC COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER AND PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LAKE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAINTING PATHWAYS CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSING OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SHEBOYGAN JAYCEES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP EVERGREEN CORPORATION 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: Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Jane & Arthur Stangel Fund Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc · Alliant Energy 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 Lakeshore Community 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.
- Usa Water Ski & Wake Sports Inc — 3% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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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