· Private foundation
Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k20 grants · $21k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Joe & Dawn Colwin Donor Advised Fund | $1,000,462 |
| BROOKE INDUSTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sister | $3,075 |
| FOND DU LAC AREA UNITED WAY INC | $2,500 |
| New Beginnings Pregnancy Care Ctr | $1,500 |
| Envision Greater Fond du Lac | $1,000 |
| Fond du Lac Family YMCA | $1,000 |
| WE EMPOWHER | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WOMEN IN RECOVERY | $1,000 |
| ASTOP | $1,000 |
| Congregation of the Good Shepherd | $500 |
| Fond du Lac Literacy Services | $500 |
| The ARC Fond du Lac | $500 |
| Fond Du Lac Morning Rotary Foundation | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC4× · 2017–2023 · $33k · revenue +59%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC3× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +101%
- EGENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC INC3× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $26k
- SOShepherd of the Hillsone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 family resource center of fond du lac county, inc (frc) is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to the healthy development of children and families through a variety of pregnancy and parenting support programs.
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.
Creating a better community by promoting philanthropy, awarding effective grants, and providing leadership on important community issues today and forever.
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
To provide compassionate care that brings hope, health and wholeness to all we serve. the organization provides skilled nursing care, independent living and assisted living facilities. st. francis home is the heart of its care campus.
We are a state licensed substance abuse facility which functions to provide a clinically managed residence treatment center for women and women with children.
To love, serve, and support the women, children and families in our community before, during and after pregnancy, reaching the most vulnerable and in need. by providing self-sufficiency training and education to pregnant women and new…
A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…
The lake area free clinic is the medical and dental home to low-income residents of waukesha county. the mission is to provide high-quality comprehensive health care to those in need.
The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Fond Du Lac Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 95 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 MARIAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FOND DU LAC WI INC ↗
- Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKE INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ASTOP INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRATITUDE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAHALA'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE ARC FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WOMEN IN RECOVERY 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: Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Grande Foundation · Michels Family Foundation · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Sadoff Family Foundation · Baker Family Foundation Inc · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family 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 Mid-States Aluminum 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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