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Memmen 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.

$33k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$76kReligion$68kArts & Culture$55kHealth$20kPhilanthropy$15kHousing & Shelter$3kRecreation & Sports$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,888
Median grant
2
States reached
$526k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM$25,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,888
CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION$2,140
JANET BERRY ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION$200
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$200
02The need
03

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 (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SEEING EYE: $3k → 4%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$224k · 12 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$224k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+49%

Still filing today

42%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • GB
    GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +29%
  • NR
    NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +86%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +82%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +99%
  • DO
    DIOCESE OF FOND DU LAC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
4
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
5
Multicare South King Health Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

6
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

8
Mount Sinai Health System Inc

The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Human Services
9
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

12
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc and the most unlike its peers is Howe Community Resource Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $60,024 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $53,000 · OtherNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INCTHE CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT — $10,350 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT+14 more — $21,603 · Other+14 moreGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $75,198 · EnvironmentGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC+1 more — $650 · EnvironmentCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $9,895 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $2,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 · HealthTHE SEEING EYE INC — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterMIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTD — $1,000 · Arts & CultureDOOR SHAKESPEARE INC — $750 · Arts & CultureHOWE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $100 · Community Improvement
Other$144,977Environment$75,848Health$14,395Human Services$3,100Housing & Shelter$3,000Arts & Culture$1,750Community Improvement$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $75,198 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC — $53,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $9,895 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,888 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTD — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOOR SHAKESPEARE INC — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC — $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP FOR HOUSING INC
  • Who funds THE BELLIN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds MIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTD
  • Who funds DOOR SHAKESPEARE INC
  • Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds HOWE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER 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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morley - Murphy Foundation · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · John and Engrid Meng Inc · Schreiber Foods Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc

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 Memmen 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Memmen Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Memmen Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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