How much did MARJORIE L CHRISTIANSEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of MARJORIE L CHRISTIANSEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $108k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC$25,000
CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION$8,000
HUNGER TASK FORCE$7,500
ABLE INC$6,000
MACCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY$6,000
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center$6,000
PROJECT ANGEL HUGS$6,000
NEW LIFE CHURCH$5,000
SIXTEENTH STREET$5,000
SILVER SPRING NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$5,000
FLORENTINE OPERA$5,000
RACINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION$5,000
ST ANN CENTER$5,000
ABOVE AND BEYOND CHILDRENS CORPORATION$3,000
RACINE ZOO$3,000

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$586k · 35 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$586k

$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%

+31%

Still filing today

63%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

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FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +61%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +67%
MACCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY
5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +205%

Funded once

RC
RIGHTWAY CLUB
one grant, 2021 · $10k
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SERVING OLDER ADULTS OF SE WISCONSIN
one grant, 2022 · $5k
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AUTISM SOCIETY OF SE WISCONSIN
one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

Racine County Opportunity Center

Racine county opportunity center (rcoc) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving all citizens of southeastern wisconsin, particularly racine county, by helping to minimize limitations caused by physical and/or cognitive…

Human Services

Autism Society of Greater Wisconsin Inc

We create connections, empowering everyone in the Autism community with the resources needed to live fully.

Health

Wisconsin Council of the Blind and Visua

Advance the interests of people in wisconsin who are blind and visually impaired.

Health

Radio Milwaukee Inc

Through music and stories created for a culturally open- minded community, radio milwaukee, inc. is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive, and engaged milwaukee.

Arts & Culture

Racine Revitalization Partnership Inc

Our mission is to build a better Racine through the social, physical, and economic revitalization of our neighborhoods.

Community Improvement

Wisconsin Voices Inc

Wisconsin voices provides technical assistance and resources to build capacity and leadership to 501(c)(3) organizations in support of commonly held values of equal opportunity, freedom, progress, and a government that works for all.

Civil Rights

Milwaukee Development Corporation

Regional economic development

Community Improvement

Pathways of Wisconsin Inc

Pathways of wisconsin provides day services and employment services including job development, training, and day-to-day support to consumers with developmental disabilities.

Human Services

Chamber of Commerce - Greater Beloit

Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.

Education

Family Voices of Wisconsin Inc

To assist families who have children with disabilities.

Health

Feeding Wisconsin Inc

Our vision is a hunger-free wisconsin and our mission is to help our food banks and partners fight hunger, improve health and strengthen local communities so that everybody in wisconsin has access to the food and benefits they need to…

Food & Nutrition

Milwaukee Community Service Corps Inc

The milwaukee community service corps (mcsc) is a non-profit vocational training organization providing employment, education and life skills to training youth adults and unemployed and underemployed of milwaukee, wisconsin.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Boerner Botanical Gardens 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/39

the rest of the field

10%

960/9,855

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/37

Grantees still filing

30/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$389,424Human Services$208,596Public Benefit$35,263Arts & Culture$32,859Health$25,763Education$20,263Youth Development$10,000

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.

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 Milwaukee Foundation IncWI47.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & · Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family · Francie Luke Silverman Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · The Ros Foundation · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust

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 organisation MARJORIE L CHRISTIANSEN 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROTARY INTERNATIONAL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 237009857 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ROTARY INTERNATIONAL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARJORIE L CHRISTIANSEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MARJORIE L CHRISTIANSEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Marjorie L Christiansen Foundation?

More from the funding graph