· Private foundation
Lois a Kania Charitable Foundation Ltd
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURATIVE CONNECTIONS | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY GREEN BAY | $700 |
| EASTER SEALS OF WISCONSIN | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF BAY BEACH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | $500 |
| FAMILY SERVICES | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $500 |
| ST NORBERT COLLEGE | $500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $500 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $400 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $400 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN | $400 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $400 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $400 |
| ADOPTAPLATOON | $300 |
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, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
66 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +46%
- PPPAUL'S PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +50%
- FSFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- AHALTRUSA HOSPITALITY HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $1k
- DBDUDLEY BIRDER CHORALE ENDOWMENTone grant, 2018 · $500
WISCONSIN PARKINSON ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $200 · revenue +17%
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.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
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.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
In collaboration with its member boards, abms creates standards for board certification for physicians and medical specialists. specifically, for initial and continuing certification. abms and its member boards establish rigorous standards…
Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Birder Studio of Performing Arts 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.
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 45 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 89 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 CURATIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION OF GREEN BAY WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST HOMELESS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Birder Studio Of Performing Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVINGINC ↗
- Who funds ALTRUSA HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BAIRD CREEK PRESERVATION 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · Wochinske Family Foundation Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · Weyers Family Foundation Inc · De Pere Christian Outreach
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 Lois a Kania Charitable Foundation Ltd 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.