· Private foundation
Paul & Ruth Schultz Fdn Agy
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $167,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT WISCONSIN NORTHCENTRA | $30,000 |
| BRIDGE STREET MISSION CAPITAL | $20,000 |
| WISCONSIN DENTAL ASSOC MISSION OF MERC | $20,000 |
| WAUSAU MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $20,000 |
| HAGAR HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY | $5,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORS PLACE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN AUTOMOTIVE & TRUST EDUCATION | $2,600 |
| ALL STARS UNDER THE STARS | $2,500 |
| CHRISTMAS IN JULY CHARITY | $2,000 |
| NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN MASTER GARDENER | $1,600 |
| LEAP LAW ENFORCEMENT APPRECIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 19% 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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +37%
- CICHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +3%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SMSAINT MICHAELS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $75k
- SMST MICHAEL PARISHone grant, 2023 · $60k
- SHSACRED HEART CLASSICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $41k
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.
To create and support one-on-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Community shares of wisconsin (csw), together with its donors and approximately 70 member nonprofits, addresses social, economic, and environmental problems through grassroots activities, advocacy, research and public education.
The mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northcentral Wisconsin is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
We believe that all children are special & unique. Our goal is to create a safe, loving environment where children can learn & be nurtured. We offer children 6 wks to 10 yrs a program emphasizing a child's total development: physical,…
The mission of women and children's horizons, inc. is to provide support, shelter, education, training, and healing services to victims of sexual and domestic abuse, their families, and the community.
To advocate for progressive change in the wisconsin justice system by educating the public about its real-life impacts and partnering with other organizations to achieve more just outcomes.
The food pantry serving waukesha county provides food, hope, and dignity to county residents in need, and advocates to increase awareness of hunger through community partnerships.
Our mission is to empower those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault and address the root causes of abuse in the community through education and advocacy.
To see everyone, everywhere, faithfully living by god's financial principles.
We provide food, household and personal items as available to combat food scarcity and poverty in our community.
Establish and maintain child advocacy centers and teams in wisconsin.
To end suffering of abused children in milwaukee county through comprehensive advocacy, education, and supportive services that heal trauma, build resilience, nurture the ability to thrive, and create a path toward eradicating the epidemic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is Christmas in July Charity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE WAUSAU AREA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MARATHON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAGAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS PLACE INC THE ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FOR REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds IRONBULL INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN AUTOMOTIVE AND TRUCK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Dudley Foundation Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Dan Storey Foundation Inc · Walter Alexander Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · The Macdonald Foundation · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · Green Bay Packers 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 Paul & Ruth Schultz Fdn Agy 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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