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Patrick J and Janet L Thompson Family 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $242k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN | $80,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $58,000 |
| LEAVEN | $34,000 |
| MINNEHAHA ACADEMY | $32,500 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - ST PAUL | $25,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE | $25,000 |
| ST PETERS LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FDN | $25,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $13,000 |
| SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER | $12,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| JAKES DIAPERS INC | $10,000 |
| MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF WI AND UPPER MI | $10,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% 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.
31 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 2 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 FY2025, 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND5× · 2021–2025 · $237k · revenue +39%
- LILEAVEN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $168k · revenue +39%
- MAMINNEHAHA ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $148k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GCGRAND CHUTE POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2021 · $25k
- LYLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
- BIBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +84%
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.
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
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.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
An independent, not for profit wisconsin corporation, the uwrf foundation is organized solely for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-river falls. private giving to the foundation is essential in raising the level of excellence at…
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…
We inspire people to experience life at its fullest by encouraging ownership of health, fostering independence, and serving the whole person; and do so with an unwavering commitment as stewards of medicaid funding.
To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…
We actively advocate, educate and support our members to help them positively impact the wisconsin communities they serve.
The uw-green bay foundation furthers the mission of uw-green bay, a public university, by developing and increasing opportunities for students primarily in the areas other than those in which the state of wisconsin ordinarily makes…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Our Pack Animal Rescue 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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 36 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 FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER FAMILY PEACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds OUR PACK ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JAKE'S DIAPERS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE DIAPER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds COTS INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Patrick J and Janet L Thompson 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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