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Primum Bonum Inc at a glance

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Primum Bonum Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$144kHuman Services$137kHousing & Shelter$126kReligion$117kFood & Nutrition$66kArts & Culture$46kYouth Development$29kHealth$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH$5,500
FOX VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$5,500
Individual grant recipient$5,500
PAUL'S PANTRY$5,000
CHRISTIAN FAMILY SOLUTIONS$5,000
LUTHERAN CHURCHES OF THE REFORMATION$4,500
RISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL$4,500
ELS LUTHERAN MISSION OF SALVATION - INDIA$4,500
LEAVEN$3,500
COLLEGEREADY$3,500
FREEDOM HOUSE$3,500
GOOD SAMARITAN RESCUE MISSION$3,500
HAND-N-HAND$3,500
WELS LUTHERANS FOR LIFE$3,500
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN INSTITUTIONAL MINISTRIES$3,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LEAVEN: $4k → 6%LEAVEN: $4k → 6%LEAVEN: $4k → 6%LEAVEN: $4k → 6%LEAVEN: $3k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $3k → 6%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $3k → 6%GOLDEN HOUSE: $3k → 10%LEAVEN: $3k → 6%GOLDEN HOUSE: $3k → 10%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $3k → 6%GOLDEN HOUSE: $3k → 10%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $3k → 6%GOLDEN HOUSE: $3k → 10%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $2k → 6%GOLDEN HOUSE: $2k → 10%COMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $1k → 6%GOLDEN HOUSE: $2k → 10%DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $500 → 17%BAY AREA LIFE CENTER: $1k → 10%BAY AREA LIFE CENTER: $1k → 10%BAY AREA LIFE CENTER: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$735k · 44 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
9

Total granted

$735k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
0%

Still filing today

55%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RM
    Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan
    6× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +23%
  • PP
    PAUL'S PANTRY INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +31%
  • CI
    COLLEGEREADY INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • SV
    St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci sgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +39%
  • WL
    WISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • VS
    VERITAS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
House of Hope Green Bay Inc

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…

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2
Family Promise of the Chippewa Valley Inc

Advocate for and support families who are homeless in our community by providing temporary housing and support services, and by fostering independence.

Human Services
3
Family Promise of Washington County Inc

Provide resources and services to empower homeless families and individuals of washington county wisconsin.

Housing & Shelter
4
Help of Door County Inc

The mission of help of door county, inc. is to eliminate domestic abuse through prevention and intervention services and to advocate for social change.

Health
5
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

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.

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6
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

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…

Employment
7
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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8
Gw Homeless Services of Northern Michigan Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Caring House Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Life House Inc

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…

Youth Development
11
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
12
House of Hope Midwest

The House of Hope is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and our community by providing a hand up into a hope-filled future.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom House Ministries Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $33,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOX VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL: $33,500 · OtherFOX VALLEY LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH: $30,500 · OtherIMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCHLUTHERAN CHURCHES OF THE REFORMATION: $25,000 · OtherRISEN SAVIOR LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherELS LUTHERAN MISSION OF SALVATION - INDIA: $24,300 · OtherWISCONSIN LUTHERAN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE INC: $24,000 · OtherHAND-N-HAND: $19,500 · OtherWISCONSIN LUTHERAN INSTITUTIONAL MINISTRIES INC: $19,500 · OtherRAWHIDE INC: $19,500 · OtherWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC: $17,000 · OtherWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $16,000 · Other+26 more: $192,700 · Other+26 moreRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $38,500 · Housing & ShelterRescue Minist…FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $19,000 · Housing & ShelterFREEDOM HOUSE…NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW COMMUNITY…PILLARS INC: $14,000 · Housing & ShelterPILLARS INCPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionPAUL'S PA…VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC: $18,000 · Food & NutritionVILAS FOO…PETERS PANTRY INC: $18,000 · Food & NutritionPETERS PA…LEAVEN INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesGOLDEN HOUSE INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $13,000 · Human ServicesBay Area Life Center: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesNORTHWOODS CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $12,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGEREADY INC: $21,000 · EducationWELS LUTHERANS FOR LIFE METRO MILWAUKEE INC: $19,000 · Civil Rights
Other$480,000Housing & Shelter$88,500Food & Nutrition$66,000Human Services$51,500Arts & Culture$24,500Education$21,000Civil Rights$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan: $38,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPAUL'S PANTRY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGEREADY INC: $21,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetRAWHIDE INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEAVEN INC: $19,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $19,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWELS LUTHERANS FOR LIFE METRO MILWAUKEE INC: $19,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetVILAS FOOD PANTRY INC: $18,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPETERS PANTRY INC: $18,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC: $17,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetGOLDEN HOUSE INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF THE FOX CITIES INC: $15,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPILLARS INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOTHES CLOSET: $13,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWOODS CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $12,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHope Center Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY: $11,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBay Area Life Center: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN 4-H FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN RIGHT TO LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds GOLDEN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS 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 NORTHWOODS CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREEN BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR HOUSE DOMESTIC ABUSE PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Green Bay Packers Fou…Wisconsin Public Serv…Greater Green Bay Com…J J Keller Foundation…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Community Foundation …Little Rapids Corpora…George Kress Foundati…Women's Fund for the …Robert and Betty Meye…Byron L Walter Family…John and Engrid Meng …
Green Bay Packers FoundationWI45.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Primum Bonum Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Primum Bonum Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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