· Private foundation
Marguerite Listeman Fund
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $65,500 |
| HIGHGROUND | $50,000 |
| NEILLSVILLE YOUTH BASEBALL | $20,000 |
| NEILLSVILLE AMERICAN LEGION POST 73 | $17,000 |
| CHRISTMAS ANGEL PROJECT | $10,000 |
| NEILLSVILLE IMPROVEMENT CORP | $10,000 |
| WARRIOR BOOSTER CLUB | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN | $3,000 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $3,000 |
| TRACTORS FOR AUTISM & DISABILITIES | $2,000 |
| NEILLSVILLE AREA PLAYERS | $2,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY JAIL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| UW EXTENSION CENTER CLARK COUNTY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +442%
- ALAmerican Legion Post 734× · 2019–2023 · $75k · revenue +69%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WISCONSIN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MMMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +77%
- NANEILLSVILLE AMERICAN LEGION 73one grant, 2020 · $30k
- NSNEILLSVILLE SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2021 · $11k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promote economic development in jefferson wi for its members
Ellsworth county economic development is improving the lives of citizens of ellsworth county through recruitment, retention, and expansion of goods and services offered in ellsworth county.
The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.
Eagles Nest Projects Wisconsin is a nonprofit educational organization whose primary purpose is to inspire and educate youth through hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs focused on aviation. The…
Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…
To provide economic development services including business recruitment, expansion, business financing, community and workforce development.
Together we are dedicated to improve the health and wellness of all generations through high quality, compassionate, and patient-centered care.
To promote economic development in boone county.
The mission of wisconsin economic development association, inc. is to enhance economic development in wisconsin through professional development, networking, and advocacy.
The mission of the center for healthcare careers of southeast wisconsin, inc. (chcsew) is to unite all appropriate stakeholders in a viable, flexible structure to locate, educate and support a workforce from service to professional levels…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marguerite Listeman Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marguerite Listeman Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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