· Private foundation
May Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERT W MONK BOTANICAL GARDENS | $65,000 |
| MATRIX HUMAN SERVICES | $50,000 |
| BRENT'S PLACE | $40,000 |
| RED CABOOSE CHILD CARE INC | $40,000 |
| ONCE UPON A ROOM | $30,000 |
| MENTORING AFFECTS YOUTH | $28,000 |
| 826 MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| LITTLE FOREST SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
| FAITH'S LODGE | $20,000 |
| SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP | $15,000 |
| PIKES PEAK ORANGE CRUSH | $15,000 |
| PROJECT 127 | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LAKELAND SCHOOL SUPPLIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- RWROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue ×12
- NLNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $106k · revenue +72%
826 MICHIGAN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $103k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -93%
- LGLAURITZEN GARDENSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- SISHENANDOAH IOWA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -20%
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.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
We believe that all children are special & unique. Our goal is to create a safe, loving environment where children can learn & be nurtured. We offer children 6 wks to 10 yrs a program emphasizing a child's total development: physical,…
Rainbow Childcare Inc. is a not for profit child care agency committed to providing quality, affordable, learning-oriented child care to the greater Green County community. We serve the children enrolled at Rainbow Childcare, Inc. and…
Woodlands school, inc. is a public charter non-profit school authorized through the univerity of wisconsin-milwaukee using a character-based education approach to prepare children for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
Community action network partners with children, youth and families from under-resourced washtenaw county michigan neighborhoods to create better futures for themselves, and improve the communities in which they live.
It is our mission to provide quality, developmentally appropriate experiences to the children and families of door county.
Our mission is to provide a nurturing and challenging montessori preschool environment for children ages 18 months to 6 years old in which children explore the world and their place in it through hands-on learning experiences and positive…
Good news children's center provides quality childcare to southeast minnesota families, in a safe environment that promotes life-long learning through developmentally appropriate and active learning curriculum.
Non-profit learning center providing safe, affordable, high- quality, and reliable child care, for all young children in randolph, nebraska and the surrounding area.
The center operates a group home for troubled youth, ages 12-18, in western nebraska.
Operation of childcare centers based on the waldorf teaching method. nurturing children, families, caregivers and communities. lifeways welcomes children and families of any race, religion,
We strive to ensure the safety and well-being of children, youth, adults, and families in times of crisis, challenge, and life transition.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum 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.
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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 49 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 ROBERT W MONK GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds ONCE UPON A ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOLL COMMUNITY IMPACT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 1 27 ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT HIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Committee For Catholic Secondary Education ↗
- Who funds CAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH IOWA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LEIGH YAWKEY WOODSON ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Clack Foundation Inc · Dan Storey Foundation Inc · Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Dudley Foundation Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Ba & Esther Greenheck 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 May 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.
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