How much did MERGANSER FUND INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of MERGANSER FUND INC’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.

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$11k

Total assets

Largest grants

VERSITI BRI FOUNDATION$6,000
ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA PARISH$4,000
MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER$3,550
FELLOW MORTALS$2,000
LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC$2,000
TALL PINES CONSERVANCY$1,000
THE WOMENS CENTER$100
HEBRON HOUSE$100
MILWAUKEE PBS$60

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $400) land where the poverty rate runs at 5% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$88k · 14 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$88k

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%

+73%

Still filing today

50%

19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsHealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

FM
FELLOW MORTALS
6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +94%
THE LAKE AREA FREE CLINIC
7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +410%
MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER
5× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +98%

Funded once

FM
FELLOW MORTALSINC
one grant, 2017 · $12k
ST
ST THERESA OF CALCUTTA PARISH
one grant, 2020 · $2k
AP
ANIMAL PROTECTION OF NEW MEXICOgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +73%

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.

Wisconsin Association of Lakes Inc

The wisconsin association of lakes works to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's lakes.

Environment

Natural Resource Development

The natural resource development association supports policies that lead to proper, necessary, and conscientious resource development and conservation. by engaging community leaders, laborers, manufacturers, and job creators in the…

Environment

Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation

To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.

Environment

Landmark Conservancy Inc

To preserve, protect & enhance the natural & scenic land & water resources of wisconsin & adjacent areas for conservation, recreational & cultural purposes.

Environment

Wisconsin Woodland Owners

The mission of the wisconsin woodland owners association is to conserve and enhance the private woodlands of the state through the following actions: sustainably manage our woodlands with informed management plans that utilize best…

Environment

Dane County Conservation League

The protection and propagation of fish and wildlife, both game and non-game species, and the promotion of public education and plans to restore and conserve dane county's natural resources, and to increase opportunities for outdoor…

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Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

Working to further restoration and conservation of wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources.

Environment

Wisconsin's Green Fire Incorporated

To support the conservation legacy of wisconsin by promoting and educating about science-based management of wisconsin's natural resources.

Environment

American Civil Liberties Union

American civil liberties union of wisconsin, inc. protects and promotes the civil liberties and civil rights of all people of wisconsin in a non-partisan manner.

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The River Alliance of Wisconsin Inc

To empower people to protect and restore water.

Environment

Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water, and scenic character of leelanau county, michigan.

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellow Mortals Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animal Protection New Mexico. 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

15 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)

15/15

Grantees still filing

11/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$53,567Animals$16,765Health$14,920Education$13,550Environment$11,260Recreation & Sports$600Human Services$400

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 IncWI19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Four-Four Foundation Inc · The Galaxy Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation Inc · Arthur C Kootz Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jean & Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Ge Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation MERGANSER FUND 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: CHENEQUA FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~177 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391341610 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 CHENEQUA FOUNDATION, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 177 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
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 Merganser Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Merganser Fund Inc 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.

MERGANSER FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Merganser Fund Inc?

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MERGANSER FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Merganser Fund Inc?

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