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Mielke Family Foundation Inc

Making a difference by giving to our communities.

$368k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$513kArts & Culture$317kYouth Development$240kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$94kHealth$83kFood & Nutrition$47kHousing & Shelter$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $310,075 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $368,234 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $58,159 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC$100,000
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$53,171
THE TROUT MUSEUM OF ART$50,000
COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY$25,000
THE BUILDING FOR KIDS$15,000
NEWVOICES$10,000
AFRICAN HERITAGE INC$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY & LAKES REGION$10,000
TANGU UTOTO FOUNDATION LIMITED$10,000
PEOPLE OF PROGRESSION$8,000
APPLETON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,268
FOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$6,000
SHAWANO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$5,636
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 (FY17–24, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%QUIET OAKS: $10k → 11%THOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC: $100k → 6%QUIET OAKS: $7k → 11%QUIET OAKS: $6k → 11%SHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25: $10k → 11%GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN: $15k → 6%COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY: $28k → 7%COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY: $25k → 7%COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY: $25k → 7%YMCA OF THE FOX CITIES: $8k → 7%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY: $10k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY: $10k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOX VALLEY: $10k → 7%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.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 19 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+20%

Still filing today

95%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • LU
    LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
    5× · 2019–2024 · $287k · revenue +15%
  • TB
    THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $211k · revenue +147%
  • AE
    APPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $106k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • BI
    BALLET INC
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -61% · 54% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FRESH PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -38% · 33% of their budget
  • CH
    CATALPA HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +20%

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
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
2
University of Wisconsin - River Falls Foundation Inc

An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…

Education
3
Fox Communities Credit Union

We partner with our members, communities, and fox family to build stronger financial futures.

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4
Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…

Philanthropy
5
Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing & Productivity

The wcmp will grow and nurture the mep's impact in the state of wisconsin by engaging and aligning the best possible resources to help small and medium-sized manufacturers reach their potential.

Education
6
Women's Fund for the Fox Valley Region Inc

To promote the advancement of women and girls in our community - reflecting our vision of a community of equality where power and opportunity are not limited by gender.

—
7
Fox Valley Workforce Development Board Inc

Working collaboratively in our communities to create and sustain a fully engaged, talented workforce for tomorrow, and beyond.

Employment
8
Innovative Services Inc

Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.

Human Services
9
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
10
Children's Theater of Madison Inc

To spark imagination and build community through the creation and experience of theater.

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11
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
12
Foxdale Village Corporation

Foxdale village is a quaker guided community and our organization's values -- community, acceptance, engagement, inclusion, caring, fulfillment and stewardship -- reflect its founding heritage. foxdale leads the region in its delivery of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Fresh Project. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr17%13%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr12%18%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr19%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr17%12%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr12%16%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr19%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
6%
111/1,720

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 41 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC — $211,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS INCTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INCBALLET INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET INCATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC — $28,000 · Arts & CultureATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INCPeople of Progression Inc — $28,000 · Arts & CulturePeople of Progression IncAFRICAN HERITAGE INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $27,236 · Arts & Culture+3 moreTHOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHOMPSON CENTER ON LOU…COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC — $77,900 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EARLY LEARNI…FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC — $51,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF NOR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX …QUIET OAKS — $22,858 · Human ServicesQUIET OAKSGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $17,500 · Human Services+2 moreLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $286,841 · EducationLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY …+1 more — $7,680 · EducationFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 · OtherFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY OR…Thrivent Member Network - Rocky Mountain — $33,536 · OtherThrivent Member Networ…FOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · OtherShawano School District — $14,000 · OtherCATALPA HEALTH INC — $25,000 · OtherCATALPA HEALTH INCBRIDGE THE GAP INC — $14,500 · OtherFox Valley Memory Project Inc — $12,500 · OtherDOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC — $36,000 · OtherDOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT…HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC — $25,500 · OtherHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC …RIVERVIEW GARDENS INC — $20,000 · OtherRIVERVIEW GARDENS INCdoTERRA Healing Hands Foundation — $18,700 · OtherdoTERRA Healing Hands …FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $12,000 · Other+5 more — $48,000 · Other+5 moreAPPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $105,500 · Crime & LegalCASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $77,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FRESH PROJECT — $25,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$404,236Human Services$314,258Education$294,521Other$319,736Crime & Legal$120,500Youth Development$77,500Philanthropy$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN — $286,841 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUILDING FOR KIDS INC — $211,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetAPPLETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $105,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetTHOMPSON CENTER ON LOURDES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER OF THE FOX VALLEY INC — $77,900 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC — $77,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI INC — $51,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOX VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET INC — $40,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT CENTER OF SHAWANO COUNTY INC — $36,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetATLAS SCIENCE CENTER INC — $28,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPeople of Progression Inc — $28,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC — $25,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FRESH PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetCATALPA HEALTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUIET OAKS — $22,858 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRIVERVIEW GARDENS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICAN HERITAGE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetdoTERRA Healing Hands Foundation — $18,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE THE GAP INC — $14,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFox Valley Memory Project Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOX CITIES PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $11,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHAWANO AREA MATTHEW 25 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNEWVOICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF PBS WISCONSIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOSAIC FAMILY HEALTH INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEINSTEIN PROJECT INC — $7,680 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE FOX CITIES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShawano County Arts Council Inc — $5,636 over 1y, 7.3% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …US Ventureschmidt Fam…Green Bay Packers Fou…J J Keller Foundation…The Boldt Family Fund…Greater Green Bay Com…Thrivent Financial fo…Basic Needs Giving Pa…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Oshkosh Area Communit…Doug & Carla Salmon F…Hartwig Family Founda…
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region IncWI66.8× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · J J Keller Foundation Inc · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Basic Needs Giving Partnership Inc · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation Inc · Hartwig Family Foundation 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 Mielke 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 41 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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