How much did PATRICK & MARYSUE MICHELS FAMILY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of PATRICK & MARYSUE MICHELS FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $13k
$10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

ST FRANCIS DE SALES SEMINARY$300,000
FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION$100,000
BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST$50,000
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC COMMUNITY$50,000
LOVE ONE ANOTHER CAMPAIGN$30,000
THE ARC FOND DU LAC$25,000
ST MARY'S SPRINGS ACADEMY$10,000
ARCHDIOCESE OF MILWAUKEE$10,000
ST KATHERINE DREXEL SHELTER$10,000
CHARIS PREGNANCY & FAMILY HELP CENTER$10,000
ST MARY PARISH$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$5,000
MANITOQUA MINISTRIES$5,000
FOND DU LAC SYMPHONIC BAND$2,000
CURE FOR CASEY$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$815k · 20 repeat orgs$552k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$815k

$206k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

-7%

Still filing today

50%

18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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BADGERLAND YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $230k · revenue +0%
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FOND DU LAC AREA FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +24%
TA
THE ARC FOND DU LAC
2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +3%

Funded once

SM
ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $50k
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THE ARC OF FOND DU LAC
one grant, 2021 · $45k
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LOVE ONE ANOTHER
one grant, 2023 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Fond Du Lac Area United Way Inc

To unite individuals and organizations in teamwork that forsters the health, education and financial stability of our community

Philanthropy

Fond Du Lac Festivals Inc

Direct, promote, and support festivals and special events that showcase fond du lac and the surrounding communities, and also provide assistance to other area charitable organizations.

Philanthropy

Envision Greater Fond Du Lac

We bring stakeholders together to pursue opportunities that improve economic vibrancy, strengthen community identity, and invest in the next generation.

Education

Optimist Club Foundation of Fond du Lac

Education

Envision Greater Fond Du Lac Inc

Business association to serve the interests of the greater fond du lac, wisconsin area

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Fund for Lake Michigan Inc

Lake Michigan is one of Wisconsin's greatest assets, and its water is critical to the state's future. The Fund for Lake Michigan is here to help sustain the Lake on behalf of the people and places that depend on it. Our goal is to have a…

Environment

Fond Du Lac Humane Society

The fond du lac humane society is dedicated to providing humane care and treatment to all animals needing protection, and to enhance the lives of animals and people through education, adoption, and compassion.

Animals

Fond Du Lac Rotary Club

Serve fond du lac wi area youth

Community Improvement

Boys & Girls Club of Fond Du Lac

Youth development programs working to empower all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens through academic, social, and emotional support.

Youth Development

Fond Du Lac Concert Association Inc

Proliferation of fine arts within locality.

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Fond Du Lac Firefighters Local 400 Charitable Fund Inc

Fundraising

Philanthropy

Fond Du Lac County Agricultural Society

Administration of fond du lac county fair - fond du lac, wisconsin

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fond Du Lac Area Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Green Lake Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

8/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,253,500Health$50,000Education$20,000Environment$15,000Arts & Culture$12,500Religion$10,000Human Services$6,000

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.

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.

Michels Family FoundationWI22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Michels Family Foundation · Fond Du Lac Area Foundation · Mid-States Aluminum Foundation Inc · Kevin and Connie Michels Family · Mike Shannon Automotive Foundation Inc · Grande Foundation · Jf Ahern Co Foundation · Francis R & Ruth E Oberreich · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation PATRICK & MARYSUE MICHELS FAMILY 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.

2024

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 391988124 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 22% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Patrick & Marysue Michels Family?

Find your warmest path to Patrick & Marysue Michels Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PATRICK & MARYSUE MICHELS FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Patrick & Marysue Michels Family?

More from the funding graph

PATRICK & MARYSUE MICHELS FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Patrick & Marysue Michels Family?

More from the funding graph