· Private foundation
Mark a and Jean M Elste Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of MARK A AND JEAN M ELSTE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOORWAY TO LEARNING INC | $5,000 |
| FEED AND CLOTHE MY PEOPLE | $3,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN | $575 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF THE DIOCESE OF GREEN BAY INC | $500 |
| MIDSUMMER'S MUSIC | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| DIOCESE OF LA CROSSE | $500 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCER CENTER INC | $250 |
| NEW LIFE CLINIC | $250 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue -5%
- FOFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +24%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue -83%
Funded once
- WFWOMEN'S FUND OF DOOR COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $3k
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +16%- WVWISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…
The door county historical society strives to collect, maintain and share the history and heritage of door county through preservation, education and programming.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
It is our mission to provide quality, developmentally appropriate experiences to the children and families of door county.
United way's mission is to improve lives.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated on a not-for-profit basis and exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, as amended,…
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.
Wwbic opens the doors of opportunity by providing any individuals who are interested in starting, strengthening, or expanding businesses with access to resources such as financial products and quality business and personal financial…
Child day care center
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Life Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 32 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 Doorway to Learning Inc ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN VETERAN'S VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUE BALDWIN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BEJA SHRINERS ↗
- Who funds MIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTD ↗
- Who funds HELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE CLINIC ↗
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: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation · Lutsey Family Foundation · Sunshine Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Mark a and Jean M Elste Family 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.