· Private foundation
Primum Bonum Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,500 |
| FOX VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| CHRISTIAN FAMILY SOLUTIONS | $5,000 |
| PAUL'S PANTRY | $5,000 |
| RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF THE REFORMATION | $4,500 |
| ELS LUTHERAN MISSION OF SALVATION - INDIA | $4,500 |
| RAWHIDE BOYS RANCH | $3,500 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION | $3,500 |
| WELS LUTHERANS FOR LIFE | $3,500 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN INSTITUTIONAL MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $3,500 |
| CITY RESCUE MISSION OF SAGINAW | $3,500 |
| COLLEGEREADY | $3,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% 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 +62% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- RMRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan6× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +23%
- PPPAUL'S PANTRY INC6× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +31%
- CICOLLEGEREADY INC6× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +174%
Funded once
- SVSt Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci sgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +39%
- WLWISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $3k
- VSVERITAS SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
House of hope green bay provides a safe and supportive place where youth and young families with children experiencing homelessness will be come confident, independent, and successful members of our community. house of hope envisions a…
Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.
Provide resources and services to empower homeless families and individuals of washington county wisconsin.
The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.
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.
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…
To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness
The mission of gw homeless services of northern michigan, inc is to provide safe, supportive shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness.the 2023 990 was for 10/1-12/31/23 due to an accounting period change.
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
Life house works to reconnect homeless and street youth to their dreams with a vision that no youth will be left homeless, alone, uncared for, or fending for themselves on the streets. our comprehensive service model aims to engage and…
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom House Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s. 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 55 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 Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEREADY INC ↗
- Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WELS LUTHERANS FOR LIFE METRO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PETERS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PILLARS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · J J Keller Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · Women's Fund for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Robert and Betty Meyer Family Foundation · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · John and Engrid Meng Inc
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 Primum Bonum 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.