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Lewitzke Foundation Inc

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.

$284k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$714kHuman Services$212kReligion$209kArts & Culture$161kHealth$99kYouth Development$98kHousing & Shelter$86kInternational$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $241k
$7,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
D C EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$47,000
LEARN BUILD FLY INC$31,000
CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC$30,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
BRIDGE STREET MISSION$15,500
PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC$15,250
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP$15,000
THE HAGER HOUSE$15,000
ST MARKS CATHOLIC CHURCH$14,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN INC$10,000
AFRICA INLAND MISSION$10,000
NEW BEGINNINGS$10,000
DC EVEREST AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC$7,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RECREATION AVIATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%MY TEAM TRIUMPH: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 10%ASCEND NONPROFIT SOLUTIONS: $10k → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $3k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $7k → 15%RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON: $500 → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $3k → 14%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $1k → 15%RECREATION AVIATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%STABLE HANDS INC: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 11%STABLE HANDS INC: $2k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $750 → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $500 → 11%WAUSAU CHILD CARE: $3k → 11%WAUSAU CHILD CARE: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 59 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
26

Total granted

$2.4M
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+7%

Still filing today

42%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationReligionInternationalArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • LB
    LEARN BUILD FLY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +746%
  • WY
    WOODSON YMCA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +93%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -93%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $27k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $22k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Women in Technology Wisconsin Inc

The mission of women in technology is to attract, grow, and retain women of all ages in technology-related careers. wit collaborates with professionals, companies, and communities to help women in technology of all ages and stages - from…

Youth Development
2
Wapakoneta Family Ymca

The mission of the wapakoneta family ymca is: to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. the wapakoneta family ymca is a charitable, community social-service organization…

Human Services
3
Workforce Connections Inc

Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…

Employment
4
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
5
Goodwill Manufacturing Inc

Goodwill manufacturing, inc. ("goodwill manufacturing") is a nonstock, not-for-profit wisconsin corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock, not-for-profit…

Employment
6
Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc

The Y is the nation's leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility.

Human Services
7
Wisconsin Public Radio Association Inc

The purpose of the wisconsin public radio association (wpra) is to support wisconsin public radio by engaging in cooperative fundraising, stewardship and advocacy. the wpra generates support through programs and participatory activities…

Arts & Culture
8
Wisconsin Christian Campus Ministries Inc

Our mission is to advance the gospel of jesus christ through the next generation by engaging the lost and discipling believers on college campuses.

Religion
9
Wisconsin Council On Economic Education Inc

To enhance the quality and quantity of economics education in wisconsin.

Social Science
10
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin Inc

The mission of goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill") is: connecting people to work. preparing people for life. goodwill is dedicated to creating collective community impact through (continued on schedule o)

Employment
11
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Foundation Inc

The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…

Arts & Culture
12
Wisconsin Parkinson Association Inc

Providing hope, community, support, and resources for people with parkinson's and their loved ones.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic School District Foun…Community Arts OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Government Accountability R…Food Pantries & AssistanceYouth Development CentersCommunity Health CentersVeteran Support ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Animal Rescue and AdoptionYouth Sports Booster Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Ymca Community Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr19%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr16%52%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr19%16%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,484

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.

04the grantee network

35 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
21/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $575,249 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $174,110 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST MARKS CHURCH — $103,000 · OtherST MARKS CHURCHWOODSON YMCA INC — $78,774 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $78,700 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $57,600 · Other+65 more — $647,334 · Other+65 moreDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $598,750 · EducationDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDAT…LEARN BUILD FLY INC — $83,500 · EducationLEARN BUILD FLY INC+1 more — $3,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $50,000 · Public BenefitSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $35,000 · ReligionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $10,000 · ReligionCHRISTIAN LIFE COMMUNICATIONS INC — $5,000 · ReligionSTABLE HANDS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesAscend Nonprofit Solutions — $10,000 · Human ServicesBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $5,750 · Human ServicesTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesWAUSAU CHILD CARE INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesRECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $16,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $6,000 · Health
Other$1,714,767Education$685,250Arts & Culture$117,500Public Benefit$50,000Religion$50,000Human Services$48,750Health$22,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $598,750 over 3y, 36% of budgetCHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC — $100,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetLEARN BUILD FLY INC — $83,500 over 5y, 20% of budgetWOODSON YMCA INC — $78,774 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC — $57,600 over 6y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES — $47,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE — $30,172 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBROOKLYN PARK ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $17,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,675 over 3y, 34% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTABLE HANDS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAscend Nonprofit Solutions — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD NEWS PROJECT INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON — $5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIFE COMMUNICATIONS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCW SOCCER INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWAUSAU CHILD CARE INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMYTEAM TRIUMPH WISCONSIN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 DC EVEREST EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC
  • Who funds LEARN BUILD FLY INC
  • Who funds WOODSON YMCA INC
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LEAGUE FOR THE HANDICAPPED DBA INSPIRATION MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE
  • Who funds BROOKLYN PARK ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin Inc
  • Who funds STABLE HANDS INC
  • Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
  • Who funds Ascend Nonprofit Solutions
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE 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.

Ba & Esther Greenheck FoundationWI41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Dudley Foundation Inc · The Macdonald Foundation · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers 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 Lewitzke 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lewitzke Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lewitzke Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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