· Private foundation
Mmg 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $533k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOX VALLEY REGION INC | $161,000 |
| NORTHERN SKY THEATRE | $126,250 |
| DOOR COUNTY YMCA INC | $120,000 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE | $70,900 |
| NORTHERN DOOR CHILDREN'S CENTER | $55,000 |
| THIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE | $40,000 |
| LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $38,100 |
| PENINSULA PLAYERS | $29,000 |
| UU FELLOWSHIP OF DOOR COUNTY | $25,700 |
| DOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP | $20,000 |
| DOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM | $17,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| THE STATUE OF LIBERTY-ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +47% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +32% · 26% of their budget- DCDOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM CORP5× · 2020–2024 · $185k · revenue +309%
- TATHIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $161k · revenue +184%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -83%
- KPKNOCK PUBLISHING COMPANYone grant, 2021 · $10k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -21%
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.
Dcedc is a public/private partnership dedicated to improving the economic vitality of the county and its residents. dcedc has been successful in helping existing businesses create and retain thousands of jobs through a myriad of programs…
The door county historical society strives to collect, maintain and share the history and heritage of door county through preservation, education and programming.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated on a not-for-profit basis and exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, as amended,…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Door County Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ephraim Mens Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% 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 7% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 65 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 NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Door County YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COMMUNITY AUDITORIUM CORP ↗
- Who funds THIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDSUMMER'S MUSIC LTD ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KNOCK PUBLISHING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPHRAIM HISTORICAL FOUNDATION 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: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Hislop Family Foundation · Charles & Marcia Larsenanthony & Priscilla Beadell Foundation · Lutsey Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Door County Inc · Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Tatman 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 Mmg 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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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