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Lutsey Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$242k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$474kPhilanthropy$299kHousing & Shelter$256kYouth Development$206kHealth$187kFood & Nutrition$146kEducation$121kReligion$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDEN HOUSE$50,000
FRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH AND FAMILIES (FOPYF)$50,000
THL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION)$40,000
JACKSONPORT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$22,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION$20,450
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY$12,000
ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE$5,000
CLIMATE CHANGE COALITION OF DOOR COUNTY$5,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$5,000
DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
DOOR COUNTY YMCA$2,500
RIDGES SANCTUARY FESTIVAL OF NATURE$2,500
DOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$2,500
AUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN$2,000
NOTRE DAME OF DEPERE$2,000
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 (FY17–24, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOLDEN HOUSE: $100k → 10%GOLDEN HOUSE: $100k → 10%GOLDEN HOUSE: $50k → 10%COMMUNITY BENEFIT TREE: $623 → 7%BETSYS BLANKETS INC: $250 → 14%DEPERE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $5k → 10%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $729 → 8%DEPERE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $5k → 10%GOLDEN HOUSE: $75k → 8%ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE: $5k → 8%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA: $6k → 10%GREATER GREEN BAY YMCA: $6k → 10%DOOR-TRAN: $2k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES: $300 → 10%SUNSHINE HOUSE INC: $436 → 8%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

IL
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AZ
DC
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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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 43 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
60

Total granted

$1.2M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+46%

Still filing today

63%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • GH
    GOLDEN HOUSE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $351k · revenue +96%
  • HO
    HOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $203k · revenue +174%
  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AI
    ASPIRO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • NF
    NU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

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
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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2
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
3
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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4
Portal Inc

To enhance opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to participate fully in their community as valued neighbors, productive workers and respected citizens. portal, inc. assists more than 200 adults…

Employment
5
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
6
Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.

Human Services
7
The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
8
Oshkosh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.

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9
United Way of Dane County Inc

Unite the community to achieve measurable results that change lives.

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10
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
11
Dane County Parent Council Inc

Dane county parent council changes the lives of underserved children and families through education and supportive services.

Education
12
Northwoods Inc of Wisconsin

Service for disabled adults

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr15%46%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/69
the rest of the field
15%
5,816/38,837

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

63 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. 63 of the 120 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/63
Grantees still filing
47/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC — $202,500 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC — $140,081 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INCTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INCTHL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION) — $40,000 · OtherTHL SCHOLARSHIP FUND (GREATER GREEN BAY COMMUN…NU FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherFAMILYFARMED DBA GOOD FOOD CATALYST — $27,965 · Other+82 more — $228,976 · Other+82 moreGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $351,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HOUSE INCFRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH AND FAM INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH AND FA…ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & …+8 more — $25,748 · Human Services+8 moreGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $162,550 · PhilanthropyGREATER GREEN BAY …DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $135,100 · PhilanthropyDOOR COUNTY COMMUN…+4 more — $2,277 · PhilanthropyASPIRO INC — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $25,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationHEART OF GOLD CHARITY INC — $5,000 · EducationDoor County YMCA INC — $3,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $76,000 · Food & NutritionBig Green — $5,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $560 · Food & NutritionBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $62,011 · Youth DevelopmentNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC — $48,542 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $7,000 · Housing & ShelterDOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $4,046 · Housing & Shelter
Other$739,522Human Services$459,748Philanthropy$299,927Education$94,600Food & Nutrition$86,560Youth Development$62,011Housing & Shelter$59,588

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC — $351,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE GREEN BAY INC — $202,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $162,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC — $140,081 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetDOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $135,100 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $76,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $62,011 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetASPIRO INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF PALS YOUTH AND FAM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC — $48,542 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC — $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYFARMED DBA GOOD FOOD CATALYST — $27,965 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $25,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACKIE NITSCHKE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASA OF BROWN COUNTY INC — $14,389 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER GREEN BAY YMCA INC — $11,026 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDE PERE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH — $10,384 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNotre Dame Catholic School of De Pere Inc — $9,200 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE RIDGES SANCTUARY INC — $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Green — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF GREATER WISCONSIN INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $4,046 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLAKESHORE CAP INC OF WISCONSIN — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDoor County YMCA INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC YOUTH EXPEDITIONS INC — $2,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDOR-TRAN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDOOR CANCER INC — $1,647 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWRITE ON DOOR COUNTY INC — $1,444 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOOR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LTD — $1,126 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOOR COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE HAVEN PET SANCTUARY INC — $892 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $729 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS AT BIG CREEK INC — $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Benefit Tree Inc — $623 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $618 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR BIRD SANCTUARY — $450 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.

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.

Greater Green Bay Com…Green Bay Packers Fou…Door County Community…Wisconsin Public Serv…George Kress Foundati…K C Stock Foundation …Schneider National Fo…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Ellsworth and Carla P…Herbert H Kohl Charit…United Way of Door Co…Cornerstone Foundatio…
Greater Green Bay Community Foundation IncWI60.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Schneider National Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Door County Inc · Cornerstone Foundation of Northeastern Wisconsin Inc

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 Lutsey Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 120 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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