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Nelson-Jameson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $154k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILL CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UWRF-FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| MARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $23,550 |
| UW - FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,500 |
| AMERICAN PLAYERS THEATRE | $20,250 |
| MARSHFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,333 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $10,000 |
| MARSHFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT | $7,500 |
| CITY OF MARSHFIELD | $7,004 |
| SOUP OR SOCKS INC | $5,500 |
| HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MARSHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 29 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $63k · revenue +39%
American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $61k · revenue +25%- SOSOUP OR SOCKS INC2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UFUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (UW MARSHFIELD)one grant, 2023 · $10k
- CCCHESTNUT CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $8k
- COCITY OF MARSHFIELD-JURUSTIC PARKone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The mission of the marshall waterloo food pantry in wisconsin is to ensure that everyone facing food insecurity in their community can access short-term food assistance while fostering hope and dignity. we believe no one should go hungry.
To help grow the demand for wisconsin milk by providing programs that enhance the competitiveness of the wisconsin dairy industry.
Marc, inc. advocates for the full inclusion of all individuals with disabilities in the life of their community. we do so by fostering opportunities for individuals with disabilities to develop a sense of self-worth and dignity, while…
The mission of wisconsin center for nursing, inc. is to assure an adequate, well-prepared and diverse nurse workforce for the people of wisconsin. the work of the wisconsin center for nursing continues to be focused in five core nursing…
The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…
He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.
The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
To advance the health of our communities through excellence and discovery, inspiring each person to live their unique, best life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is We Love Ballooning Inc. 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 27 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 42% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 98 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 MILL CREEK YOUTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUP OR SOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HENDRICKSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMPANION DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA PET SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER YOUTH RECREATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET MARSHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds HANNAH CENTER 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: Umhoefer Foundation Inc · Marshfield Area Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Weber Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Woodtrust Charitable Foundation Inc · Koch Charitable Trust · Marshfield Area United Way
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 Nelson-Jameson 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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