· Private foundation
Mayer Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARK'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FIRST PRIORITY OF METRO ATLANTA | $8,000 |
| OPERATION HELO INC | $5,000 |
| MUSKEGO SENIOR TAXI SERVICE INC | $5,000 |
| PREBORN | $5,000 |
| KATHY'S HOUSE INC | $4,000 |
| MACCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC | $4,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY SECRET SANTA INC | $3,000 |
| SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITIES INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TTTHIS TIME TOMORROW INC6× · 2018–2023 · $25k · revenue +60%
MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +25%
HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2023 · $9k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCES CABRINI CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $7k
- VFVeterans For Child Rescue Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +75%
FRIENDS INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%
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 mission or core purpose of fisher house wisconsin (fhw) is to:1. provide a "home away from home" for families of veterans and service members receiving medical care from any designated veterans administration (va) hospital or medical…
First responders foundation's mission is to serve and honor all our first responders and their families, build appreciation and respect for their work, and enhance public safety.
The mission of hospice of holland is to provide the most compassionate and highest quality end-of-life care through physical, emotional, and spiritual support.
To support members of the military and their families
Operation finally home's mission is to provide homes and home modifications to america's military heroes, first responders and their families who have sacrificed so much in services to country and community. we bring together corporate…
Hospice of northwest ohio provides specialized medical emotional and spiritual care to people of all ages - and their families - living with any end-stage illness in northwest ohio and southeast michigan
Helping Heroes provides support services and resources to homeless and near homeless veterans, in order to transition them to, or maintain self-sufficiency. The goal is reintegration into society as men and women who currently feel…
Patient care and counseling of the terminally ill and their families.
The mission of hospice by the sea, inc. (hbts) is to provide families with access to compassionate, expert and professional healthcare services in their time of need, throughout their lifespan. hbts honors life, offers care and comfort…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
The mission of warrior health foundation is to mitigate the effects of "operator syndrome" in post 9/11 veteran operators of the special forces community through the provision of high-quality free or low-cost proactive and preventative…
Care to terminal patients/families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends Inc and the most unlike its peers is Door County Secret Santa. 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 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 39 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 THIS TIME TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds First Priority of Metro Atlanta ↗
- Who funds MacCANON BROWN HOMELESS SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY SECRET SANTA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HELO INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds Veterans For Child Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKEGO SENIOR TAXI SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STILL STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HELP A HERO ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAST CELL DISEASE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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: Baird Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · West Bend Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Mayer 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.