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Paul S Symchych Charitable Foundation

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.

$465k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Education$242kHealth$235kArts & Culture$95kEmployment$85kFood & Nutrition$70kHuman Services$20k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Milwaukee Repertory Theater Inc$75,000
Maricopa County Community College District Foundation$75,000
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin$40,000
Planned Parenthood Arizona$40,000
Plan A Health Inc$40,000
Chippewa Valley Technical College Foundation$30,000
North Bennet Street School$20,000
Fresh Start Women's Foundation$20,000
Gateway Technical College Foundation$20,000
JobsWork MKE Inc$20,000
Chicago Women in Trades$20,000
Pie Ranch$20,000
Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership Inc$15,000
IYRS School of Technology & Trades$10,000
Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms USA$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Fresh Start Women's Foundation: $20k → 11%JobsWork MKE Inc: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$457k · 5 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$457k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MC
    MARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $152k · revenue +159%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +15%
  • IS
    IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +17%
  • KC
    Kinship Community Food Center (aka Kinship MKE)
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

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.

1
Wisconsin Technical College System Foundation Inc

The wisconsin technical college system (wtcs) foundation, inc., seeks to advance the wisconsin technical college system, its constituent technical colleges and public and private sector career, technical and workplace education. the…

Education
2
Women in Technology Wisconsin Inc

The mission of women in technology is to attract, grow, and retain women of all ages in technology-related careers. wit collaborates with professionals, companies, and communities to help women in technology of all ages and stages - from…

Youth Development
3
Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board Inc

The northwest wisconsin workforce investment board (nwwib) will create, and continue to improve, an innovative and quality strategic direction for the regional workforce development system.

Public Benefit
4
Institute for Women's Policy Research

Iwpr champions economic equity for all women and eliminates barriers to their full participation in society. as a leading national think tank, iwpr builds evidence to shape policies that grow women's power and influence, close inequality…

5
Goodwill Industries of Metropolitan Chicago Inc

Goodwill industries of metropolitan chicago, inc. ("goodwill-chicago") is a nonstock, not-for-profit illinois corporation, whose sole member is goodwill industries of southeastern wisconsin, inc. ("goodwill"), a wisconsin nonstock,…

Human Services
6
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
7
Women in Product

Our mission is to equip women and non-binary folks to thrive in product management careers at all levels. we want all people to have equitable opportunities to build rewarding careers and shape the products of the future.

Human Services
8
Gps Education Partners Inc

Gps education partners is a non-profit work-based learning solutions provider and advocate, representing our students, businesses, and communities, focusing on access and equity for all students to succeed in the jobs of the future.

Arts & Culture
9
Workforce Connections Inc

Wci empowers individuals through employment and training services, helping people of all backgrounds including low-skilled and unskilled adults enter the workforce. we provide economically disadvantaged individuals and those facing…

Employment
10
All-in Milwaukee Inc

All-in milwaukee is a college completion program that provides financial aid, advising, program and career support to high potential, limited-income, diverse milwaukee students to complete college, build meaningful careers and transform…

Education
11
Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Workforce development board of south central wisconsin, inc.'s mission is to build public and private partnerships that support innovation and excellence in workforce development.in furtherance of its mission the organization dedicates…

Employment
12
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership and the most unlike its peers is North Bennet Street School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLAN A HEALTH INC — $120,000 · HealthPLAN A HEALTH INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $70,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC — $40,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC+1 more — $5,000 · HealthMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $151,669 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY…WISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP — $15,000 · PhilanthropyWISCONSIN REGIONAL TRAINI…MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE REPERTO…IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureIYRS SCHOOL OF TE…Kinship Community Food Center (aka Kinship MKE) — $25,000 · OtherKinship Co…CHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $20,000 · OtherCHICAGO WO…GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · OtherGATEWAY TE…Individual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual…FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionWorldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms USA — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCHIPPEWA VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · EducationNorth Bennet Street School — $20,000 · EducationJOBSWORK MKE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesPIE RANCH — $20,000 · Employment
Health$235,000Philanthropy$166,669Arts & Culture$115,000Other$70,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Education$50,000Human Services$40,000Employment$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $151,669 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPLAN A HEALTH INC — $120,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $95,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ARIZONA INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms USA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 S Symchych Charitable Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Paul S Symchych Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paul S Symchych Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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