· Public charity
Nicolet National Foundation Inc
Charitable purposes under section 501(c)(3).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $276,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $330,188 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,688 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| OSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC | $36,500 |
| THEDACARE FAMILY OF FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NWTC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT OF DE PERE | $25,000 |
| WOODSON YMCA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 79% 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- WYWOODSON YMCA INC5× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +80%
- NWNORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +12%
- TFThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CHCATALPA HEALTH INCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +20%
- UWUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +5%
- FVFOX VALLEY POP WARNER FOOTBALL INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -42%
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.
Wisconsin youth company's mission is to engage youth in opportunities to encourage them to be their best selves.
Wisconsin family ties changes lives by improving children's mental health. it accomplishes this mission through a set of interrelated activities that support and educate parents, and inform practitioners, policy makers and the public about…
The mission of lad lake, inc. is to guide the growth of at-risk youth so that they reach their potential and live responsibly.
The winona family ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families and strong…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
The itasca county family ymca (ymca) is a charitable, community service organization founded in 1979 with a mission to strengthen ourselves, families and communities by promoting growth in spirit, mind and body. the ymca includes men,…
Service for disabled adults
United way of wisconsin is dedicated to supporting and enriching a strong statewide united way network that maximizes the capacity of local united ways to address human needs, improve lives and create lasting positive change across…
To improve the quality of life by providing resources and services within our communities.
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…
To provide quality, accessible primary health care services to all children in our community, advocate for the well-being of all children, educate children, families, health care professionals and our community regarding the health of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Door County Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stella Maris Foundation. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 31 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 OSHKOSH KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc ↗
- Who funds CATALPA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD SAFETY INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STELLA MARIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOX VALLEY POP WARNER FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIAN LAVIOLETTE SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER RECREATION ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRUS MEDFORD HOSPITAL & CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds Door County YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of the Northwoods Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC ↗
- Who funds Transformation House Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BAY BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF CHILDREN W CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY-LAKES COUNCIL #635 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF NORTHEAST WI 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: Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Oshkosh Area United Way Inc · Lutsey Family 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 Nicolet National 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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