· Private foundation
Neese Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Services of Southern Wisconsin & North IL | $75,000 |
| Students For Liberty | $12,500 |
| Real Clear Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Fund for American Studies | $10,000 |
| Just Facts | $10,000 |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $10,000 |
| Badger Institute | $7,500 |
| United Way Blackhawk Region | $5,000 |
| Specialty Care Clinic | $5,000 |
| Beloit Junior Golf Assoc | $1,205 |
| Roy Chapman Andrews Society | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
- SBSTATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +17%
- BHBELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +20%
- RCREAL CLEAR FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $67k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- RVROCK VALLEY PROGRAMSone grant, 2017 · $30k
- BMBeloit Meals on Wheels Incone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +1%
- RCRock County Christian Schoolsone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Wisconsin principles (wp) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving conservative values in the state of wisconsin. committed to fiscal conservatism, educational choice, and individual liberty, we strive to empower…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
The organization shall advance the rule of law, free markets and a robust civic culture through litigation, research, public education, and the provision of legal counsel to like minded individuals and organizations.
The american civil liberties union of wisconsin, inc. (the union") protects and promotes the civil liberties and civil rights of all people in wisconsin in a non-partisan matter.
Chamber of commerce to support, ancourage and engage in activities that make the greater Beloit area a better place to live and do business.
The mission of the greater beloit economic development corporation ("corporation") is to foster investment and job growth in the economy thereby improving the quality of life, educational attainment, housing availability and prosperity for…
To preserve fundamental democratic principles, support wisconsin's commitment to clean and open government, and promote a progressive vision through impact litigation, administrative processes and public education.
The american civil liberties union of wisconsin foundation, inc. (the "foundation") protects and promotes the civil liberties and civil rights of all wisconsin residents by means of litigation, advocacy, public education, research, and…
The league of women voters of wisconsin (lwvwi) is a nonpartisan political organization. we encourage informed, active participation in government and work to increase understanding of major public policy issues. we influence public policy…
The wisconsin broadcasters association foundation contribution to broadcasting in wisconsin encompasses a strategic, long term vision for enhancing, promoting and supporting the broadcast industry by encouraging the preservation of…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beloit Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is The Fund for American Studies. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 38 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 UNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC ↗
- Who funds STATELINE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds STATELINE FAMILY YMCA OF BELOIT ↗
- Who funds BELOIT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds BELOIT HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds REAL CLEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BADGER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FACTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Beloit Meals on Wheels Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE'S CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds BELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELOIT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN - SOUTH CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WI SHORELINE INC ↗
- Who funds BELOIT ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIALTY CARE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF IOWA ↗
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.
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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 Neese 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.
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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