· Private foundation
Lou and Michele Gentine Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $357k
- $250k+1 grant · $312k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $311,795 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $75,000 |
| ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $75,000 |
| ARCH DIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE | $57,456 |
| WOMENS CARE CENTER MKE | $50,000 |
| WI RIGHT TO LIFE | $50,000 |
| SETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS-MILW | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $35,000 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST | $30,000 |
| GREAT MARRIAGES OF SHEBOYGAN CTY | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALLES SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| GENERATIONS | $25,000 |
| ANCHOR OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S SUPPORT CENTER OF MKE | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 14% 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- GMGREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +56%
- MMMary's Meals USA Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +159%
- AHANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INC4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $75k
- SCSETON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS-MKEone grant, 2023 · $50k
- WSWOMENT'S SUPPORT CENTER OF MKEone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 provide human milk to improve infant health and save lives.
To improve access to quality health care for all.
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
United Way uses its global reach and local presence to build stronger, more resilient communities where everyone can thrive. We work to improve the health, education, and economic mobility of every person in every community we serve.
Lutheran counseling and family services of wisconsin provides faith-based mental health counseling, family life education and adoption services.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Monitors compliance with, and enforces , the milk with dignity code of conduct with dairy farms that participate in the program which enlists dairy farms and milk producers to prevent and remedy human rights violations in dairy supply…
Focusing community resources to meet community needs the United Way of Marquette County works to advance the common good by connecting people with health and human care issues they are concerned about and to provide the oversight the…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The mission is to provide a non denominational food pantry that serves those in need in portage county wisconsin by providing food and other usable household supplies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immaculate Heart Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mary's Meals Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 46 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds GREAT MARRIAGES FOR SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS SUPPORT CENTERS OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY 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: The Sartori Family Foundation Inc · Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lou and Michele Gentine 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.
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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