· Public charity
Myra M and Robert L Vandehey Foundation Ltd
Grants are made to nonprofit organizations that serve residents in thefox cities or keshena areas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $339,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,734,478 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,394,978 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 · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC | $60,000 |
| ST MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $50,500 |
| WOMEN'S FUND FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE FOX VALLEY | $39,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC | $25,000 |
| ST MARY PARISH-APPLETON | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCOSIN | $12,500 |
| LEAVEN INC | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| MENOMINEE INDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| YOUTH GO | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET | $10,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 15% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Myra M and Robert L Vandehey Foundation Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 97% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $181k · revenue +559%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $137k · revenue +128%
- TCTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC5× · 2017–2021 · $135k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- GFGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +81%
- RIRAWHIDE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +41%
- CACHAPS ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
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…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
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…
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
`to create a culture that values parenting and keeping children safe through education, respect, advocacy, and strengthening families.
We partner with our members, communities, and fox family to build stronger financial futures.
Crossnore communities for children champions the well being of children and families by fostering innovative change that weaves a fabric of resilience in homes, schools, and communities.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
We believe the children and their families in our care deserve the chance to heal by being valued in a safe environment by competent, caring professionals. camp oakland is a private, nonprofit treatment agency that serves at-risk children…
Goodwill's mission is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and inspire communities through job skills training and work placement opportunities with a multi-generational approach focused on removing barriers.
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 Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 22 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET ↗
- Who funds NAMI FOX VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK 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: J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Hartwig Family Foundation Inc · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation Inc · Oshkosh Corporation 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 Myra M and Robert L Vandehey Foundation Ltd 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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