· Private foundation
Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k19 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kettle Moraine YMCA | $114,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $58,000 |
| Historic West Bend Theatre | $30,000 |
| The Threshold Incorporated | $25,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club West Bend | $22,300 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER OF WASHINGTON CTY | $20,000 |
| United Way of Washington County | $20,000 |
| Riveredge Nature Center | $20,000 |
| West Bend Full Shelf Food Pantry | $15,000 |
| Museum of Wisconsin Art | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Kewaskum Youth Scholarships Inc | $12,000 |
| Blue Lotus Center | $10,000 |
| Washington County Historical Society | $10,000 |
| Friends Inc | $9,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $805k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +7% since the first grant, against -72% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KMKETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC10× · 2017–2026 · $424k · revenue +58%
- WCWASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC10× · 2017–2026 · $370k · revenue +76%
MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC10× · 2017–2026 · $220k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- WBWEST BEND BASEBALL ASSOCone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -92%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- RLRESTORING LANDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +451%
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 museum is an educational institution dedicated to preserving the history and culture of waukesha county.
The mission of the wisconsin association of lakes is to conserve, enhance, and restore wisconsin's 15,000 lakes to ensure their sustainability for the benefit and collective use and enjoyment for this and future generations.
Promotes the arts and related activities at local, state and national levels
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
Wccf is a pool of permanent endowment and project funds created primarily by and for the people of waukesha county to provide grant support to charitable organizations. the intent of the foundation is to serve a broad spectrum of the…
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.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
To protect environmentally senstive land in waukesha county wisconsin
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
The wisconsin wildlife federation has a dual mission to engage in conservation education and to advocate for sound conservation policy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Washington County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roots and Branches Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% 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.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 60 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 KETTLE MORAINE YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WISCONSIN ART INC ↗
- Who funds RIVEREDGE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE THRESHOLD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FULL SHELF FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WEST BEND THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds WEST BEND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST BEND BASEBALL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds KEWASKUM REMEMBERS 9-11 INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KEWASKUM YOUTH SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE FIRST 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: West Bend Community Foundation Inc · Prescott Family Foundation Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Westbury Bank Charitable Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Melitta S and Joan M Pick Charitable Trust · United Way of Washington County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Community Trust Norman a Schowalter · Froedtert West Bend Hospital Foundation Inc · Elmore & Alyce Kraemer Char Tr
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 Oscar & Augusta Schlegel Fdn 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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