· Private foundation
Michels Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $480k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY | $1,000,000 |
| AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY | $530,000 |
| FOND DU LAC FAMILY YMCA | $370,000 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| UNLIMITED PLAY | $120,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE SEMINARY | $100,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $60,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SOLUTIONS CENTER SHELTER & SUPPORT SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH-LOMIRA AREA FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| HOLYLAND FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $812k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 10 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMarquette University6× · 2019–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +46%
- AHAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +32%
MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC2× · 2019–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +5%
Funded once
- BSBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +41%
- WYWAUPUN YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
- SFST FRANCIS HOME OF FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +20%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
To unite individuals and organizations in a collaborative cost-effective effort to meet the human service needs of the community
To serve the christian home and church by disciplining students academically and spiritually; helping each student attain a biblical worldview and their full potential as unique and beloved creations of a sovereign god.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
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.
Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
Extraordinary healthcare from the heart - one person at a time.vision: we will set the standard for community-based healthcare that improves the health and quality of life of the people we serve.
Fond du lac lutheran home, as part of lutheran homes and health services, provides a christian-based innovative approach to aging through comprehensive services, programs, and communities.
Inspired by the franciscan values of compassion, dignity and respect, we support individuals with diverse and unique abilities to achieve their highest quality of life, personal growth and spiritual awareness.the vision of st. coletta of…
The mission of franciscan care services, inc. is to live and to promote the healing mission of jesus christ by providing quality health care and health related inpatient, outpatient, home health and physician services to anyone in…
To provide services and facilities for people whose capabilities and needs vary widely. lcc strives to make the lives of people more independent, healthful, meaningful and secure through development of innovative programs delivered with…
How this is measured
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 115 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
- Who funds UNLIMITED PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds GOLD IN SEPTEMBER CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC SYMPHONIC BAND LTD ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN EDUCATION TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHELS SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOME OF FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Holyland Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ST ANN CENTER FOR INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FOND DU LAC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA CHRISTIAN RETREAT INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Grande Foundation · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Sadoff Family Foundation · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Michels Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michels Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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