· Private foundation
Lenz Edward and June Char Tr 71504
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $177k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $792k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARDEEVILLE BOYS CLUB INC | $160,000 |
| PARDEEVILLE AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $152,535 |
| ADRC OF COLUMBIA COUNTY | $100,000 |
| GREATER PORTAGE YOUTH EDUCATION FDN | $78,985 |
| PORTAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $77,765 |
| PARDEEVILLE DISTRICT AMBULANCE SERVICE | $63,000 |
| PORTAGE CENTER FOR THE ART INC | $60,000 |
| RIVER HAVEN HOMELESS SHELTER | $50,000 |
| CANOPY CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| PARDEEVILLE BULLDOG SUPPORT FOUNDATION | $48,696 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| PORTAGE RECOVERY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| PORTAGE SERVICE CLUB ASSOCIATION | $18,275 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $13,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 9 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPORTAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC4× · 2018–2024 · $396k · revenue +80% · 46% of their budget
- PAPORTAGE AREA COMMUNITY CHARITABLE TRUST5× · 2018–2022 · $180k · revenue +176% · 70% of their budget
- RHRIVER HAVEN HOMELESS SHELTER INC2× · 2022–2024 · $63k · revenue +46% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of West Centralone grant, 2023 · $150k
- SMSAINT MARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTIONone grant, 2022 · $60k
- SJST JOHNS LUTHERAN MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $48k
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 are a youth basketball league that runs from March thru November for children in grade level kindergarten thru 12th grade
To promote and assist the portage parks department
Promote and develop youth hockey in portage county, to provide a recreational and socially healthy outlet for youth up to and including high school ages and to help direct the participating youth into responsible life choices.
Provide support for athletics at portage township school
Promote development of amateur soccer players
Public library services
Provide opportunity for local youth to learn and play organized hockey.
To support coaching staff and swimmers of the portage aquatic club.
The portage county public library foundation, inc. manages contributions and bequests to benefit the patrons of the portage county library.
To encourage & support the hockey program of portage public schools through the contribution of time, materials, monies, knowledge and skill.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 41 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 PORTAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTAGE YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE AREA COMMUNITY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds PARDEEVILLE BOYS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PARDEEVILLE BULLDOG SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE YOUTH BASEBALL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER HAVEN HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MENTORING OF COLUMBIA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE CURLING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 1 TRUST ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE SERVICE CLUB ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS INC OF WISCONSIN ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lenz Edward and June Char Tr 71504 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lenz Edward and June Char Tr 71504. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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