· Private foundation
Lunda Charitable Fund Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUNDA COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $1,000,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - LUNDA CENTER | $55,000 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BLACK RIVER FALLS | $47,000 |
| ALMA CENTER COMMUNITY FIRE DISTRICT | $18,995 |
| CITY OF BLACK RIVER FALLS | $17,878 |
| MELROSE-MINDORO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,971 |
| JACKSON COUNTY INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS INC | $12,000 |
| LINCOLN JRSR HIGH SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| KARNER BLUE GARDEN CLUB | $5,130 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF MONROE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PROJECT CHRISTMAS | $4,200 |
| JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH | $3,500 |
| FRIENDS SHARING FOOD | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2023 · $23k · revenue +153%- BRBOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +54%
- ICINTERFAITH CAREGIVERS INC3× · 2018–2020 · $13k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- JCJACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2019 · $100k
- BRBLACK RIVER FALLS FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $49k
- MSMELROSE SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $19k
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.
Provide food to those in need in the River Falls Community
As a community organization we provide confidential, temporary food, clothing, and financial assistance to help economically and nutritionally insecure individuals and families return to self-sufficiency.
Services to neighbors in need including the elderly
To provide non-medical, volunteer-based support for older adults living in Faribault County in order to help them maintain independence, dignity and quality of life.
Blanchard valley residential services, inc. is dedicated to encouraging individuals with disabilities to reach their greatest potential while supporting quality, meaningful life choices and opportunities through person center approach in…
Provide hospice care and bereavement support services.
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Fire protection
The buffalo senior center, inc. provides human services, nutrition programs, transportation services, and other miscellaneous services to the senior residents of the city of buffalo and johnson county, wyoming.
Provide emergency food assistance to needy individuals in Milwaukee.
To alleviate hunger and promote self-sufficiency with dignity and compassion to low-income, elderly and disabled residents of Ozaukee County.
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic abuse and supportive services to all victims of abuse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black River Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lunda Community Center Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
13 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. 13 of the 68 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 LUNDA COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc ↗
- Who funds HATFIELD FIRE & RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOLTON REFUGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREGIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SHARING FOOD INC ↗
- Who funds APTIV INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK RIVER AREA CHILDCARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK RIVER FALLS AREA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Black River Falls Area Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · 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 Lunda Charitable Fund 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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