· Private foundation
Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOND DU LAC FAMILY YMCA | $150,000 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY | $150,000 |
| FOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $100,000 |
| ST MATTHEW CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CITY OF FOND DU LAC | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST PETER'S ATHLETIC CLUB | $9,450 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC | $9,000 |
| WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FOCUS (FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS) | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k 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 INC6× · 2017–2024 · $206k · revenue +59%
- AHAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $78k · revenue +32%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC3× · 2018–2021 · $76k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- FDFOND DU LAC ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BIBROOKE INDUSTRIES INC THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF FOND DU LACone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FDFOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -2%
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.
Administration of fond du lac county fair - fond du lac, wisconsin
The mission of envision greater fond du lac foundation, inc. is to inspire our community to work in partnership and cultivate a vibrant economic future.
Direct, promote, and support festivals and special events that showcase fond du lac and the surrounding communities, and also provide assistance to other area charitable organizations.
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.
To establish a diverse, prosperous and healthy district that is the social, commercial and cultural heart of the community.
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.
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.
The fond du lac fusion volleyball club is dedicated to the overall development of the player and the person in addition to providing an arena to perform at a competative level. the club emphasizes skill development, responsibility,…
Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…
Serve fond du lac wi area youth
Uwo-fond du lac foundation, inc is to promote excellence at uwo-fond du lac while enhancing the educational and cultural activities available on campus.
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fond Du Lac Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Optimist Club Foundation of Fond du Lac. 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 50 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 59 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 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE WISCONSIN AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK DEALERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE LINE HOCKEY CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds MORAINE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds FOND DU LAC AREA WOMEN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION GREATER FOND DU LAC INC ↗
- Who funds THELMA SADOFF CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARIS PREGNANCY & FAMILY HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAHALA'S HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETER ATHLETIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FONDY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FONDY YOUTH BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds Vince Lombardi Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Optimist Club Foundation of Fond du Lac ↗
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 · Kevin and Connie Michels Family Foundation · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Michels Family Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Agnesian Healthcare Inc · Patrick & Marysue Michels Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Sadoff Family Foundation · Korb 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 Mike Shannon Automotive 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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